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optabile

optabile is a Latin form of optabilis, meaning “desirable, to be wished for; desired, longed for”. It is the nominative singular neuter adjective or vocative singular neuter adjective or accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 29 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 7.22: … nte atque voce in contionem vocavit declaravitque maximam libertatis recuperandae cupiditatem. ita, quod erat optabile antea ut populum Romanum comitem haberemus, nunc habemus ducem. quae est igitur spes, qui Mutinam circumseden …

All forms of optabilis (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.