英语词汇“optative”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

optative

/ˈɒptətɪv

/ /ɒpˈteɪtɪv

Grammar

adjective

Relating to or denoting a mood of verbs in Greek and certain other languages, expressing a wish, equivalent in meaning to English let’s or if only.This is not simply to avoid criticisms of judgment speech by translating it from the indicative to the optative mood....

The old neoplatonic shadow of what Emerson in ‘The Transcendentalist’ calls an ‘optative mood,’ reconciling textual particular and idealist consciousness, is not as far away here as one might initially imagine.
The second sentence transforms the first from an indicative statement of fact into something more like an optative expression of desire.

noun

1A verb in the optative mood.It is difficult not to grin, if Ptolemaic land-leases or Greek optatives or German monographs make you giddy.

1.1 (the optative) The optative mood.

Derivatives

optatively

adverb ...

It can also be rendered optatively as in our English versions.
Of forms having a modal sense, how many are used subjunctively and how many optatively?

Origin

Mid 16th century: from French optatif, -ive, from late Latin optativus, from optat- 'chosen', from the verb optare (see opt).

单词	optative
释义	optative /ˈɒptətɪv / /ɒpˈteɪtɪv / Grammar adjective Relating to or denoting a mood of verbs in Greek and certain other languages, expressing a wish, equivalent in meaning to English let’s or if only.This is not simply to avoid criticisms of judgment speech by translating it from the indicative to the optative mood.... The old neoplatonic shadow of what Emerson in ‘The Transcendentalist’ calls an ‘optative mood,’ reconciling textual particular and idealist consciousness, is not as far away here as one might initially imagine. The second sentence transforms the first from an indicative statement of fact into something more like an optative expression of desire. noun 1A verb in the optative mood.It is difficult not to grin, if Ptolemaic land-leases or Greek optatives or German monographs make you giddy. 1.1 (the optative) The optative mood. Derivatives optatively adverb ... It can also be rendered optatively as in our English versions. Of forms having a modal sense, how many are used subjunctively and how many optatively? Origin Mid 16th century: from French optatif, -ive, from late Latin optativus, from optat- 'chosen', from the verb optare (see opt).
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