English

Noun

utinam ‎(plural utinams)

1. (obsolete) A fervent wish.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:

     now can the Will which hath a power to run into velleities, and wishes of impossibilities, have any utinam of this.

Latin

Etymology

From ut + nam.

Adverb

utinam ‎(not comparable)

1. if only (I wish that)

References

• utinam in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• utinam in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “utinam”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.