English

Noun

optimates

1. plural of optimate

Latin

Noun

optimātēs

1. nominative plural of optimās
2. accusative plural of optimās
3. vocative plural of optimās

References

• OPTIMATES in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• optimates in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• optimates in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin