| 单词 | optative |
| 释义 | optative (once / 88204 pages) adjn WORD FAMILY optative: optatively+/opt: optative, opted, opting, option, opts/option: optional, options/optional: optionally USAGE EXAMPLESThere are several moods, most not native in English – the desiderative, the optative, and the propositive – which may offer a solution. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2013) Throughout the Greek classical period the moods are maintained, but in the period of the κοινή the optative occurs less and less and finally disappears. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) An optative of this nature in the Lule language has already been mentioned. Brinton, Daniel Garrison, The Philosophic Grammar of American...(2011) 1adj indicating an option or wish 2adj relating to a mood of verbs in some languages optative verb endings 3n a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs Syn|Hyper optative mood modality, mode, mood verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
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