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Webster 1913 Edition


Optimate

Op′ti-mate

,
Adj.
[L.
optimas
,
-atis
, adj.,
optimates
, n. pl., the adherents of the best men, the aristocrats, fr.
optimus
the best.]
Of or pertaining to the nobility or aristocracy.
[R.]
Noun.
A nobleman or aristocrat; a chief man in a state or city.
[R.]
Chapman.

Definition 2024


optimate

optimate

English

Noun

optimate (plural optimates)

  1. (historical) A member of the patrician ruling class in republican Ancient Rome; an aristocrat, a noble.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 23:
      Over the same decade, the upper stratum of Visigothic society, the optimatesgradually lost their influence.

Translations


Latin

Noun

optimāte

  1. ablative singular of optimās