utinam

English

Etymology

From Latin utinam.

Noun

utinam (plural utinams)

1. (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

• manitu

Latin

Etymology

From ut + nam.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ti.nam/, [ˈʊt̪ɪnä̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.ti.nam/, [ˈuːt̪inäm]

Adverb

utinam (not comparable)

1. (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.