English word expectation comes from Latin de, Latin specto (I consider. I test. I watch, observe, look at, see.)
| Dictionary entry | Language | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| de | Latin (lat) | (Late Latin) of persons. From, away from, down from, out of; in general to indicate the person or place from which any thing is taken, etc., with verbs of taking away, depriving, demanding, requesting, inquiring, buying; as capere, sumere, emere, quaerere, discere, trahere, etc., and their compounds.. From, away from, to indicate the place from which someone or something departs or [...] |
| specto | Latin (lat) | I consider. I test. I watch, observe, look at, see. |
| exspecto | Latin (lat) | I expect. I wait for. |
| exspectatio | Latin (lat) | Expectation, waiting. Suspense. |
| expectation | Middle French (frm) | |
| expectation | English (en) | (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.. (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions of an experiment.. That which is expected or looked for.. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.. The [...] |