PRAESTOLANTES, praestolantes
Sounds Like: prai-stoh-LAHN-tess
Translations: waiting, expecting, looking forward to, those waiting, those expecting
From the root: PRAESTOLOR
Part of Speech: Participle
Explanation: PRAESTOLANTES is the present active participle of the Latin verb PRAESTOLOR, meaning 'to wait for, to expect, to look forward to'. As a participle, it functions like an adjective, describing someone or something that is currently performing the action of waiting or expecting. It can also be used substantively, meaning 'those who are waiting' or 'those who are expecting'.
Inflection: Present Active Participle, Nominative or Accusative Plural, Masculine or Feminine
Instances
Polycarp of Smyrna
- Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians — 10:1
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, PRAESTOLOR.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- PRAESTOLOR — wait for, await, expect, attend, be ready for
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