optimate
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒptɪmeɪt/
Noun
optimate (plural optimates)
- (historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 23:
- Over the same decade, the upper stratum of Visigothic society, the optimates gradually lost their influence.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 23:
Latin
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