optimate

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈɒptɪmeɪt/

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 optimates gradually lost their influence.

Translations

• French: optimate
• German: Optimat, Optimatin
• Italian: ottimate

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