optavit

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

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Philippicae 13.1: … ve uterque sive Octavius sive Cinna sive iterum Sulla sive alter Marius et Carbo sive qui alius civile bellum optavit, eum detestabilem civem rei publicae natum iudico.

Ovid, Amores 3.2.30: Optavit manibus sustinuisse suis.

Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum 85·5: … venire decebat. Etenim nemo ignavia immortalis factus est, neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optauit, magis uti boni honestique vitam exigerent. Plura dicerem, Quirites, si timidis virtutem verba adderent; nam …

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.