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optative

Meaningexpressive of a wish

Common meaning: expressing a wish (grammar)

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√AP‘seize, attain, bind’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 14, p. 731 · scan
  2. Latinoptativus‘expressive of a wish’source
  3. Frenchoptatifsource
  4. Englishoptative‘expressing a wish (grammar)’ · today

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.
  • US IPA: not available. Respelling: generated.

Origin: Built on Latin optativus ‘expressive of a wish’.

Roots

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