a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English doesn't have an inflexional optative mood, but it does have modal verbs like "might" and "may" that express possibility
a mood of verbs found in some languages (e.g. Old Prussian, Latin), used to express a wish. English does not have an optative mood, but it does have some words with peculiar properties e.g., hope, wish, want, desire, which express the optative