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optative

Translation
optative
—optatively, adv.
/op"teuh tiv/, Gram.
adj.
1. designating or pertaining to a verb mood, as in Greek, that has among its functions the expression of a wish, as Greek íoimen "may we go, we wish we might go."
n.
2. the optative mood.
3. a verb in the optative mood.
[1520-30; < LL optativus, equiv. to L optat(us) (ptp. of optare; see OPT, -ATE1) + -ivus -IVE]

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