optate

Etymology

From Latin optatus, past participle of optare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɒpˈteɪt/

Verb

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

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

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Anagrams

• potate

Participle

optāte

1. vocative masculine singular of optātus

Verb

optate

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