ἔλπομαι

English (Slater)

ἔλπομαι (ἔλπομαι, -εαι, -εται; impf. ἔλπετο coni.)
   1 expect, imagine
   a abs. νῦν δ' ἔλπομαι μέν, ἐν θεῷ γε μὰν τέλος (O. 13.104)
   b c. aor. inf. ἔλπομαι μὴ χαλκοπάρᾳον ἄκονθ' ὡσείτἀγῶνος βαλεῖν ἔξω (P. 1.44) ἔλπετο δ (sc. αὐτὸν) οὐκέτι οἱ κεῖνόν γε πράξασθαι πόνον (Schr.: ἤλπετο codd.) (P. 4.243) τὰ δ' αὐτὸς ἀντιτύχῃ, / ἔλπεταί τις ἕκαστος ἐξοχώτατα φάσθαι (N. 4.92) ἔλπομαι μέγα εἰπὼν σκοποῦ ἄντα τυχεῖν (N. 6.26) ἐγὼ δὲ πλέον' ἔλπομαι λόγον Ὀδυσσέος ἢ πάθαν διὰ τὸν ἁδυεπῆ γενέσθ Ὅμηρον (N. 7.21)
   c c. fut. inf. ἔλπομαι δ' τὸν Ἱπποκλέαν ἔτι καὶ μᾶλλον σὺν ἀοιδαῖς ἕκατι στεφάνων θαητὸν ἐν ἅλιξι θησέμεν (P. 10.55)
   d c. pres. inf. εἰ δὲ θεὸν ἀνήρ τις ἔλπεται λτ;τιγτ; λαθέμεν ἔρδων (λελαθέμεν Mommsen: <τι> Mu surus: <κε> Turyn) (O. 1.64) τί ἔλπεαι σοφίαν ἔμμεν; (Bergk: εἶναι Stobaeus, om. Clem. Alex.: what do you imagine sophia to be ) fr. 61.
   e c. inf. pres.? & κε. ἔτι γλυκυτέραν κεν ἔλπομαι κλείζειν (κλείξειν Π, v. l. in codd.: sc. ὁδὸν λόγων) (O. 1.109), cf. Turyn at (O. 1.64)

Frisk Etymological English

Grammatical information: v.
Meaning: expect, hope, think (Il.); act. ἔλπω make hope only β 91 = ν 380 πάντας μεν (Ϝ)έλπει.
Other forms: ep. also ἐέλπομαι (below), perf. (with present meaning) ἔολπα, plusquamperf. ἐώλπει (for *(Ϝ)ε(Ϝ)όλπει, s. below and Debrunner Mus. Helv. 2, 199, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 479f. with Add. et corr.)
Compounds: As 2. member in ἄ-ελπ-τος unexpected, unhoped-for with ἀελπτ-ία, -έω (Il.), also ἀ-ελπ-ής (ε 408); as 1. member in Ἐλπ-ήνωρ (Od.; on the formation Schwyzer 441, Sommer Nominalkomp. 175 m. Lit.).
Derivatives: ἐλπωρή hope (Od.; for -ωλη?; cf. Porzig Satzinhalte 235); ἐλπίς, -ίδος f. id. (π 101 = τ 84; cf. Porzig 353; on the meaning Martinazzoli Stud. itfilclass. 1946, 11ff.) with εὔ-, ἄν-ελπις a. o.; denomin. verb ἐλπίζω id. (Ion.-Att.) with ἐλπιστικός, ἐλπισμός, ἔλπισμα (Arist.). - On ἐλπίς, ἔλπομαι s. Myres ClRev. 63, 46.
Origin: IE [Indo-European] [1137] *u̯elp- hope
Etymology: To (Ϝ)έλπομαι (s. Chantraine, Gr. hom. 1, 133 and 182) and the old perfect with present meaning (Ϝ)έ(Ϝ)ολπα there is no counterpart; Homer has a few forms from ἐέλπομαι, after ἐέλδομαι (Beekes, Development 64). A connected verbal adjective is supposed in Lat. volup(e) est it is pleasant to me (from there volup-tas); IE *u̯olp-i- or *u̯l̥p-i- (cf. τρόχις or turpis and Brugmann Grundr.2 2 : 1, 167ff.) or *u̯elp-i-.