utinam

From Latin utinam.

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.

• manitu

From ut + nam.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈʊ.tɪ.nãː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈuː.t̪i.nam]

utinam (not comparable)

1. (exclamatory) if only!, I wish that!, oh that!, would that!, would to heaven!

   Sentīs mea vulnera, sentīs; atque utinam sōlī sint ea nōta tibi.

   You feel my wounds, you feel: and I hope they are only known to you.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.575–576:

     “Atque utinam rēx ipse Notō compulsus eōdem
     adforet Aenēās!”

     “And would that your king himself – had he been driven by the same south wind – were present: Aeneas!” – Queen Dido

• “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
• utinam in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.