Etymology

esperanza

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Spanish esperanza ← Old Spanish esperança ← Latin spērāns
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*speh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*spéh₁s
  3. Proto-Italic*spēs
  4. Old Latinspēs
  5. Old Latin*spēsō
  6. Latinspērō
  7. Latinspērāns
  8. Old Spanishesperança
  9. Spanishesperanza
  10. English todayesperanza

Borrowed from Spanish esperanza (“hope”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.