optatam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →opto, optare, optavi, optatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
choose, select; wish, wish for, desire;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →optatus, optata -um, optatior -or -us, optatissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
desired, wished for, welcome; chosen;
acc. sg. (f.)
Examples
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...occasionem mi ostentam, tantam, tam brevem, tam optatam, tam insperatam amitterem? tum pol ego is essem vero..."
Liber Quartus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...auxiliis. nec plura equidem discrimina cerno. fors etiam optatam dabitur contingere pellem. sed te non animis nec solis..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...poscit opem res et coniurat amice. Qui studet optatam cursu contingere metam, multa tulit fecitque puer, sudauit..."
