Optative is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 186 anagrams from letters in optative (aeiopttv).
1520-30; Late Latin optātīvus, equivalent to Latin optāt(us) (past participle of optāre; see opt, -ate1)
But in determining accent final –– and –– are counted short except in the optative mode and in a few words, , .
Neither the subjunctive nor the optative has any signs of mood at all, except the negative one of the absence of the augment.
Should τύπτοιμι be reduced to a past tense, or verberarem be considered an optative mood.
The optative re wŏffen, etc. seems to be formed on the imperfect mixed up with the subjunctive.
It may be sufficient to say that the adherence throughout to the optative rendering, admitted by all in ver.
This verb is optative: so are ‘(may) scorch,’ ‘(may) fill,’ ‘may roll,’ and ‘may be crowned.’
Associated words: desiderative, desideratum, orectic, optative.
In the following, an aorist is followed not by an optative, but by a subjunctive.
She means an indicative, but wishes her mother to understand her in the optative mood.
The form aguei is used by Collado in the construction of the optative below.