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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of optō (“choose, select”).
Participle
optātus (feminine optāta, neuter optātum, comparative optātior, superlative optātissimus); first/second-declension participle
- wished for, desired, pleasant, having been desired.
- chosen, selected, having been chosen.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “optatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “optatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- optatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- my wishes are being fulfilled: optata mihi contingunt
- “optatus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray