optate

English

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Etymology

First attested in 1611; borrowed from Latin optātus, perfect passive participle of optō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of opt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒpˈteɪt/

Verb

optate (third-person singular simple present optates, present participle optating, simple past and past participle optated)

1. (rare before the 19th century, now literary) To choose, settle on, opt.
   • 1989, François Rabelais, “An Epistle by Pantagruel's Limosin”, in The Complete Works of Doctor François Rabelais:

     While we, alas! must still obambulate, Sequacious of the court and courtier's fate : O most infaust who optates there to live! An aulic life no solid joys can give.

References

• “optate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Poteat, aptote, teapot

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

optate

1. inflection of optare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

optate f pl

1. feminine plural of optato

Anagrams

• potate

Latin

Participle

optāte

1. vocative masculine singular of optātus

Spanish

Verb

optate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of optar combined with te