Word.ws English Dictionary

optatives

optatives is the plural of optative.

Meaning of optative

Noun

optative (plural optatives)

  1. A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, Tamil, and Ancient Greek, but not English), used to express a wish.
  2. A verb or expression in the optative mood.

See all 4 meanings of optative

Questions about optatives

What is optatives the plural of?
Optatives is the plural of optative.

Words near optatives in the dictionary

  1. optating
  2. optation
  3. optations
  4. optative
  5. optatively
  6. optatives
  7. opted
  8. opted in
  9. opted out
  10. OPTEMPO
  11. opter

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: optatives (page history and authors); optative (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “optatives.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/optatives. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.