Adjective optative has 2 senses
  1. optative - indicating an option or wish
  2. optative - relating to a mood of verbs in some languages; "optative verb endings"
,Noun optative has 1 sense
  1. optative mood, optative - a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
    --1 is a kind of mood, mode, modality
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