optimate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin optimātēs, masculine plural form of optimās (“best, noblest”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
optimate (plural optimates)
- (historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble.
- 1980, Gene Wolfe, chapter XII, in The Shadow of the Torturer (The Book of the New Sun; 1), New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 112:
- The elaboration of her sateen costume (somewhat dirty and torn now) showed that she was an optimate.
- 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin, published 2012, page 23:
- Over the same decade, the upper stratum of Visigothic society, the optimates gradually lost their influence.
Translations[edit]
member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome
Latin[edit]
Noun[edit]
optimāte
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
optimate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of optimar combined with te
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