optimatibus

optimatibus is a Latin form of optimas, meaning “aristocratic; (optimates) the aristocratic party”. It is the ablative plural masculine adjective or ablative plural feminine adjective or ablative plural neuter adjective or dative plural masculine adjective.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro L. Flacco 54: … in illa contione adfuerunt neque istius decreti ac testimoni auctores esse voluerunt. Vsque adeo orba fuit ab optimatibus illa contio ut princeps principum esset Maeandrius; cuius lingua quasi flabello seditionis illa tum est egent …

All forms of optimas (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.