different between imperative vs optative

English

Alternative forms

• imp., imper. (abbreviation, grammar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imper?t?vus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??.?.t?v/

Adjective

imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative)

1. Essential; crucial; extremely important.
2. (grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
3. (computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
   • Antonym: functional
4. Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.

   • The suits of kings are imperative.

Translations

Noun

imperative (countable and uncountable, plural imperatives)

1. (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.

   Synonym: imperative mood

   Coordinate terms: assertoric, interrogative

2. (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
3. (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

Synonyms

• required

Derived terms

Translations

Italian

Adjective

imperative f pl

1. feminine plural of imperativo

Anagrams

• riempivate

Latin

Alternative forms

• inper?t?v?

Etymology

From imper?t?vus (“commanded”), from imper? (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

Adverb

imper?t?v? (not comparable)

1. In an imperative manner, imperatively.

Related terms

References

• imperative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imperative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [impera?tive]

Noun

imperative n pl

1. indefinite plural of imperativ

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation, grammar): opt.

Etymology

From Middle French optatif, from Late Latin opt?t?vus, a calque of Ancient Greek ??????? (euktik?, “related to wishing”), from Latin opt?tus, past participle of opt?re.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??pt?t?v/, /?p?te?t?v/
• Hyphenation: op?ta?tive
• Rhymes: -e?t?v

Adjective

optative (not comparable)

1. Expressing a wish or a choice.
   • 1662, Thomas Fuller, History of the Worthies of England

     an optative blessing

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Back Bay, 2006. page 64.

     ... then, in the optative retirement from hard science that building and opening a U.S.T.A-accredited and pedagogically experimental tennis academy apparently represented for him ...

2. (grammar) Related or pertaining to the optative mood.

Translations

Noun

optative (plural optatives)

1. (grammar) A mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English does not have inflectional optative forms.
2. (grammar) A verb or expression in the optative mood.

Derived terms

• optatively

Translations

See also

• subjunctive

French

Adjective

optative

1. feminine singular of optatif

Latin

Adjective

opt?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of opt?t?vus