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optant

optant is a Latin form of opto, meaning “wish for, choose”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Senectute 4: … alum videri quod naturae necessitas afferat. quo in genere est in primis senectus, quam ut adipiscantur omnes optant, eandem accusant adeptam ; tanta est stultitiae inconstantia atque perversitas. obrepere aiunt eam citius qua …

All forms of opto (conjugation 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.