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is likely misspelled.
has no English definition.
As an adjective optative
is expressing a wish or a choice.
As a noun optative
is a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Ancient Greek), used to express a wish. English has no inflexional optative mood, but it has modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility.
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