optate

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin optatus, past participle of optare.

Verb

1. (obsolete) To choose; to wish for; to desire.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “optate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Poteat, aptote, teapot

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Italian

Verb

optate

1. second-person plural present indicative of optare
2. second-person plural imperative of optare
3. feminine plural of optato

Anagrams

• potate

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) optāte

1. vocative masculine singular of optātus