optative mood
A grammatical mood expressing wishes or desires. Used in linguistics and grammar contexts.
Classical Greek has a mood called the optative mood.
The optative mood expresses the speaker's wishes or hopes.
Compound of 願望 (ganbō, 'wish, desire') and 法 (hō, 'mood' in grammatical context). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is a modern linguistic calque.