optatum

optatum is a Latin form of opto, meaning “wish for, choose”. It is the perfect passive participle accusative singular masculine or perfect passive participle nominative singular neuter or perfect passive participle vocative singular neuter or perfect passive participle accusative singular neuter.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.131: … sse filium. homo qui semper ita palam dictitasset, pupillos et pupillas certissimam praedam esse praetoribus, optatum negotium sibi in sinum delatum esse dicebat. monumentum illa amplitudine, illo opere, quamvis sartum tectum i …

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.3.5: Sed quoniam aheni quoque exemplo usi sumus, venit nobis in memoriam Fidum Optatum, multi nominis Romae grammaticum, ostendisse mihi librum Aeneidos secundum mirandae vetustatis, emptum in Sig …

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.