The corpus record — Latin

optivus

optivus · adj

chosen

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Where it lives

Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k

What it meant

optīvus — Lewis & Short

optīvus, a, um, adj.opto,

I chosen (poet. and in post-class. prose): cognomen, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 101: optivi vocantur hi (tutores) qui ex optione sumuntur, Gai. Inst. 1, 154 (opp. to dativi).

In the wild

optivo Horace, Epistulae 2.2.101

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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