optate

English

Etymology

From Latin optatus, past participle of optare.

Verb

optate (third-person singular simple present optates, present participle optating, simple past and past participle optated)

  1. (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for optate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

optate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of optare
  2. second-person plural imperative of optare
  3. feminine plural of optato

Anagrams

Latin

Participle

optāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of optātus
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