Lewis Short
optātĭo (noun F) : id.
* A wishing, a wish (class.).
* In gen.: Theseo cum tres optationes Neptunus dedisset,Cic. Off. 3, 25, 94.
* Rhet. fig., the expression of a wish: optatio atque exsecratio,Cic. de Or. 3, 53, 205; cf. Quint. 9, 1, 32; 9, 2, 3.
* A choosing, choice, Symm. Ep. 1, 1.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary