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.

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 931:

     CHREMĒS: Utinam id sit quod spērō!

     CHREMES: If only it turns out to be what I’m hoping for!
     (utinam id sit: optative present subjunctive expressing a wish capable of fulfillment.)

   • 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

   • Marcus Tullius Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 14.4.1:

     Quod utinam minus vītae cupidī fuissēmus!

     Oh, would that we had been less fond of life!
     (Writing from exile, Cicero uses the pluperfect subjunctive fuissemus in an optative clause introduced by utinam to express a wish that was unfulfilled in the past: In hindsight, would death at that time have been preferable to his family’s current state of despair?)

• “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.