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English
Etymology
From Latin utinam.
Noun
utinam (plural utinams)
- (obsolete) A fervent wish.
1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:now can the Will which hath a power to run into velleities, and wishes of impossibilities, have any utinam of this.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From ut + nam.
Pronunciation
Adverb
utinam (not comparable)
- (exclamatory) if only!, I wish that!, oh that!, would that!, would to heaven!
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.575–576:
- “Atque utinam rēx ipse Notō compulsus eōdem
adforet Aenēās!”- “And would that your king himself – had he been driven by the same south wind – were present: Aeneas!” – Queen Dido
References
- “utinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “utinam”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- utinam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.