optate
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Etymology edit
From Latin optatus, past participle of optare.
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optate (third-person singular simple present optates, present participle optating, simple past and past participle optated)
- (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
- 1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:
- While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.
References edit
- “optate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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Etymology 1 edit
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optate
- inflection of optare:
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Participle edit
optate f pl
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Latin edit
Participle edit
optāte
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optate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of optar combined with te