optate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin optatus, past participle of optare.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editoptate (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.
Anagrams
editItalian
editEtymology 1
editVerb
editoptate
- inflection of optare:
Etymology 2
editParticiple
editoptate f pl
Anagrams
editLatin
editParticiple
editoptāte
Spanish
editVerb
editoptate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of optar combined with te
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