뜻

1. 약속하다, 맹세하다, 계약하다
2. 보증을 서다, 담보를 내주다
3. 약혼하다

1. I promise, bind or pledge myself, contract, vow.
2. I promise for another; I become security for a person, enter bail.
3. I promise or engage in marriage, betroth.

예문

• et peregrinare in ea; eroque tecum et benedicam tibi. Tibi enim et semini tuo dabo universas regiones has complens iuramentum, quod spopondi Abraham patri tuo, (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Liber Genesis, 26 26:3)

  너는 이 땅에서 나그네살이하여라. 내가 너와 함께 있으면서, 너에게 복을 내려 주겠다. 내가 너와 네 후손에게 이 모든 땅을 주고, 너의 아버지 아브라함에게 맹세한 그 맹세를 이루어 주겠다. (불가타 성경, 창세기, 26장 26:3)

• Nempe quas spopondi. (T. Maccius Plautus, Trinummus, act 2, scene 4 4:40)

  (티투스 마키우스 플라우투스, , , 4:40)

• magis enim illum pro quo spopondi quam me ipsum obligavi; (M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to and from Brutus, LIBER PRIMVS, letter 18 4:6)

  (마르쿠스 툴리우스 키케로, 브루투스와 주고 받은 편지들, , 4:6)

• "puto inbecillo, nate, turbaris metu et te doloris horror adflictum domat, non hanc meorum viscerum stirpem fore Deo spopondi, non in hanc spem gloriae te procreavi, cedere ut leto scias." (Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber, Sancti Romani Martyris contra Gentiles Dicta.1 10:303)

  (프루덴티우스, , 10:303)

• siquidem facit cado cecidi, spondeo spopondi, pingo pinxi, lego legi, pono posui, frango fregi, laudo laudavi. (Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Liber I 236:5)

  (퀸틸리아누스, 변론 가정 교육, 236:5)

유의어 사전

Polliceri (from pro and loqui, λακεῖν) means to promise, generally from a free impulse, and as an act of obliging courtesy, like ἐπαγγέλλεσθαι; promittere, to promise, generally, at the request of another, as an act of agreement, and in reference to the fulfilment of the promise, like ὑπισχνεῖσθαι; spondere and despondere (μετὰ σπονδῶν) to promise in a solemn manner, as the consequence of a stipulation with judicially binding strength, as to pledge one’s self, ἐγγυᾶν; recipere, to take upon one’s self, and pass one’s word of honor, as an act of generosity, inasmuch as one sets at ease the mind of a person in trouble, like ἀναδέχεσθαι. The pollicens makes agreeable offers, the promittens opens secure prospects; the spondens gives legal security; the recipiens removes anxiety from another. Cic. Att. xiii. 1. Quoniam de æstate polliceris vel potius recipis; for the pollicens only engages his good-will, the recipiens undertakes to answer for consequences. Sen. Ep. 19; Jam non promittunt de te, sed spondent. Cic. Fam. vii. 5. Neque minus ei prolixe de tua voluntate promisi, quam eram solitus de mea polliceri; for with regard to Trebatius, Cicero could only express his hope, with regard to himself he could actually promise. (iv. 109.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein