Optative

/ˈɒptətɪv/

Synonyms for "optative" (29 found)

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Closest matches (6)

Adjective(3 words)
desiderativedesiderative formdesiderative mood

Strong matches (9)

Related words (14)

Noun(3 words)
Adjective(7 words)
prayer moodprayerful utterancevolitivewish formwish moodwishfulwishful utterance

Related word relations

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5 relation types

More general

9 entries
grammatical formgrammatical moodlinguistic expressionmodalitymodemoodmorphological categoryrhetorical device

More specific

7 entries
Greek optativeOld Persian optativeSanskrit optativeaorist optativeinvocation clauseprayer sentencepresent optative

Collocations

9 entries
Greek optativeOld Persian optativeSanskrit optativeaorist optativedesiderative moodoptative clauseoptative formoptative moodpresent optative

Inflections

3 entries
more optativemost optativeoptatives

Derivations

3 entries

Translations

20 translations across 18 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • εὐκτική noun (optative)

Azerbaijani

1 entries
  • arzu şəkli noun (optative)

Esperanto

1 entries
  • optativo noun (optative)

Finnish

1 entries
  • optatiivi noun (optative)

French

1 entries
  • optatif noun (optative)

German

2 entries
  • Optativ noun (optative)
  • Wunschform noun (optative)

Greek

1 entries
  • ευκτική noun (optative)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • optativus noun (optative)
  • óhajtó mód noun (optative)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • óskháttur noun (optative)

Italian

1 entries
  • ottativo noun (optative)

Korean

1 entries
  • 원망법 noun (optative)

Old English

1 entries
  • ġewȳsċendlīċ noun (optative)

Polish

1 entries
  • tryb życzący noun (optative)

Portuguese

1 entries
  • optativo noun (optative)

Spanish

1 entries
  • optativo noun (optative)

Swedish

1 entries
  • optativ noun (optative)

Tamil

1 entries
  • வியங்கோள் noun (optative)

Turkish

1 entries
  • istek kipi noun (optative)

Sample sentences

2 total sentences available.

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an optative blessing

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[…] then, in the optative retirement from hard science that building and opening a U.S.T.A-accredited and pedagogically experimental tennis academy apparently represented for him […]

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