optat

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

Found 71 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.75: … derunt facinus ceteraque quorum nihil nec suscipi sine ratione nec effici potest. Utinam igitur, ut illa anus optat ne in nemore Pelio securibus caesae accidissent abiegnae ad terram trabes sic istam calliditatem hominibus di …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 7.64.4: … duo, qui quaerit, ubi se experiatur, ubi virtutem suam ostendat, Spumantemque dari pecora inter inertia votis Optat aprum aut fulvum descendere monte leonem.

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.