The corpus record — Latin

optabilis

optabilis · adj

to be wished for

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Where it lives

In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 2 · 4.45/10k
Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
Historiae 1 · 2.46/10k
Timaeus 1 · 2.37/10k
De Patientia 1 · 2.21/10k
Maximini Duo 1 · 1.84/10k
de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 9 · 1.8/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 21 · 1.76/10k
De Scorpiace 1 · 1.26/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
De Consolatione ad Marciam 1 · 1.19/10k
Letters to and from Brutus 1 · 1.05/10k

Densest 12 of 40 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

optābĭlis — Lewis & Short

optābĭlis, e, adj.opto,

I to be wished for, desirable (class.): quae expetenda atque optabilia videntur, Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 221: mihi pax imprimis fuit optabilis, id. Phil. 7, 3, 7: tempus, Ov. M. 9, 758: quae ut concurrant omnia, optabile est, Cic. Off. 1, 14, 33.—Comp.: bono viro optabilius, Cic. Pis. 14, 33.—Sup. seems not to occur.— Adv.: optābĭlĭter, desirably (post-class.). —Comp. optabilius, Val. Max. 5, 1, 6 ext.

In the wild

optabilius Cicero, De Officiis 2.5
optabilia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.67.4
optabilius Cicero, De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 86
optabiles Historia Augusta, Maximini Duo 5
optabile Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 7.67.16
optabile Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.431

6 of 88 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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