I can't wait for

[meisenimverbis]

Is there an idiom for "I can't wait", or how do you say this? Is "sperare male possum" too much Portuguese, or does it make sense? Would there be a better (or classical) way to say?

 

[Pacifica]

Sperare male possum does not convey the meaning. If anything, it would mean something like "I can hardly hope", "there's no reason for me to hope".

I'm not aware of any equivalent Latin idiom to "I can't wait".

The verb gestio might possibly come close-ish at least in some contexts (that's typically used with an infinitive, so it would be for "I can't wait to...").

 

[meisenimverbis]

Thanks! Gestio it is!

 

[Ybytyruna]

Quidni vix ſperare poſſum? Pendet quidem a ſenſu, ut patet, ſed mihi non videtur abſurdum dicere etiam vix exſpectare poſſum.

 

[scrabulista]

Nōn Possum Satis Mox Fiērī Rēx ("Just Can't Wait to Be King" from Disney's Lion King) | Latin D (latindiscussion.com)

Which is more literally "I can't become king soon enough"

 

[Pacifica]

Satis mox sounds rather odd. Satis cito might be less weird.

 

[cinefactus]

me cruciat expectare?

 

[Pacifica]

me cruciat expectare?

I kind of like this.

It's not as if it were an attested phrase, but I think it works to some extent.

 

[Matthaeus]

Et mihi placet.

 

[Agrippa]

„Just Can‘t Wait to Be King“ >

Nihil mihi videtur longius quam dum regnum mihi deferatur.

 

[syntaxianus]

These phrases occur to me, at least to get close to something like "I cannot wait":

non possum remanere aequo animo dum (aliquid occurrat)
>>> I cannot stay calm until (something happens)

vix possum in exspectatione manere
>>> I can hardly remain in waiting

vix possum me continere in exspectando
>>> I can hardly keep myself still in waiting

non possum (aequanimiter) aliquid morae ferre
>>> I cannot (calmly) bear any delay

nihil morae (mihi) perdurandum (est) (omnino)
>>> I can bear no delay (at all)

nil morae (mihi) tolerabile (est).
>>> No delay is bearable (for me).