optatus
See also: Optatus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Perfect passive participle of optō (“choose, select”).
Participle
[edit]optātus (feminine optāta, neuter optātum, comparative optātior, superlative optātissimus); first/second-declension participle
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | optātus | optāta | optātum | optātī | optātae | optāta | |
| genitive | optātī | optātae | optātī | optātōrum | optātārum | optātōrum | |
| dative | optātō | optātae | optātō | optātīs | |||
| accusative | optātum | optātam | optātum | optātōs | optātās | optāta | |
| ablative | optātō | optātā | optātō | optātīs | |||
| vocative | optāte | optāta | optātum | optātī | optātae | optāta | |
References
[edit]- “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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- my wishes are being fulfilled: optata mihi contingunt
- 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