optatus

See also: Optatus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of optō (“choose, select”).

Participle

optātus (feminine optāta, neuter optātum, comparative optātior, superlative optātissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. wished for, desired, pleasant, having been desired.
2. chosen, selected, having been chosen.

Declension

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

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: ottato (archaic)
• Borrowings:
  • → Italian: optato
  • → Spanish: optado

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