different between opera vs spectacle

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??p.??.?/, /??p.??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??.p??.?/, /??.p??/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian opera. Doublet of oeuvre and ure.

Noun

opera (countable and uncountable, plural operas or opere)

1. (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
2. (music) The score for such a work.
3. A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.

   • “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, […], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"

4. A company dedicated to performing such works.
5. (by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• aria
• ballet
• masque
• melodrama
• musical comedy
• recitative
• singspiel
• Appendix:Glossary of opera

Etymology 2

From Latin opera, plural of opus.

Noun

opera

1. plural of opus; a collection of work.

Anagrams

• pareo

Azerbaijani

Noun

opera (definite accusative operan?, plural operalar)

1. opera

Declension

Catalan

Verb

opera

1. third-person singular present indicative form of operar
2. second-person singular imperative form of operar

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?op?ra]

Noun

opera f

1. opera

Related terms

• See opus
• operní

Further reading

• opera in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• opera in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
• opera in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera, plural of opus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.p??ra?/
• Hyphenation: ope?ra

Noun

opera f (plural opera's, diminutive operaatje n)

1. opera

Derived terms

• operacomponist
• rockopera
• operazanger
• operazangeres

Related terms

• oeuvre
• operette
• opus

Esperanto

Etymology

From opero (“opera”) +? -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?pera/
• Rhymes: -era

Adjective

opera (accusative singular operan, plural operaj, accusative plural operajn)

1. of or relating to opera

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?op?r?]
• Hyphenation: ope?ra
• Rhymes: -r?

Noun

opera (plural operák)

1. (music) opera (a theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance)

   Synonyms: dalm?, zenedráma

2. (music) opera, opera house (building designed for the performance of such works)

   Synonyms: operaház, dalszínház

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• opera in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin opera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pe.ra/
• Rhymes: -?pera

Noun

opera f (plural opere)

1. work

   Synonym: lavoro

2. means, help, services

   Synonyms: mezzo, aiuto, servigi

3. (music) opus
4. (music) opera

   Synonym: melodramma

5. institution, institute, society

   Synonyms: istituzione, istituto

Related terms

• manodopera
• operaio
• operare
• operetta
• operista
• operoso

Verb

opera

1. third-person singular present of operare
2. second-person singular imperative of operare

Ladin

Noun

opera f (plural operes)

1. work

Latin

Etymology

From operis +? -a, genitive singular inflection of opus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.pe.ra/, [??p??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.pe.ra/, [???p???]

Noun

opera f (genitive operae); first declension

1. work, exertion, effort
2. service
   • 62 B.C.E. – 43 B.C.E., Cicero, Epistulae ad famili?r?s 13.9.3:

     […] Cn. P?pium, qu? est in oper?s eius societ?tis […]

     […] Gnaeus Pupius, who is in the service of that association […]

3. (especially with dare) care, attention bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
   1. with dative
   2. (uncommon) with ad + accusative
   3. with ut/n? + subjunctive
   4. with the subjunctive alone
      • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad famili?r?s 10.21.6:

        Ut exercitum loc?s habeam opport?n?s, pr?vinciam tuear, etiam s? ille exercitus desc?erit, omniaque integra servem dab? operam, quoad exercit?s h?c summitt?tis par?que f?l?cit?te rem p?blicam h?c vindic?tis.

        I shall take care to keep the army in suitable locations, to protect my province even if that army defects, and to preserve the whole position uncompromised, until you send armies to my support and defend the commonwealth with just as much success.

   5. (Old Latin, rare) with the infinitive
4. (in the ablative and with possesive pronouns) one's fault, agency, doing
5. (Old Latin) (in the ablative, with exper?r?) one's own experience
6. (Old Latin) (with ?n? or e?dem) manner, way
7. spare time for something (see #Usage notes)
   • c. 60 B.C.E. – 54 B.C.E., Cicero, Epistulae ad Qu?ntum fr?trem 3.4.4:

     D? versibus qu?s tibi ? m? scr?b? v?s, d?est mihi quidem opera sed abest etiam ????????????, qu? n?n modo tempus sed etiam animum vacuum ab omn? c?r? d?s?derat.

     Regarding the verses which you want composed by me to you, I don't have the time, but the afflatus is absent too, which needs not only time but also a soul empty of every worry.
8. a day's labour
9. (metonymically) day labourer, farmhand
   • B.C.E. 30, Horace, Satires 2.7.117–118:

     […] ?cius hinc t?
     n? rapis, acc?d?s opera agr? n?na Sab?n?.

     […] If you don't make off
     from here faster, you'll become the ninth farmhand on the Sabine field.

   1. (by extension) any kind of worker
   2. (derogatory, politics) hired aider, tool, rowdy
10. deed, activity, effort
11. handiwork

Usage notes

The word, in its “spare time” meaning, is frequently used in the ante-classic period, and especially by Plautus, in the locution operae esse, meaning 'to be worth the time'. Later on, it is characteristic of Livy's style and of the archaising tendencies of Silver Latin.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

• opella
• operor
• operae pr?tium

Descendants

Noun

opera

1. nominative/accusative plural of opus

References

• opera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Latvian

Noun

opera f (4 declension)

1. opera

Declension

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian opera (per musica)

Noun

opera m (definite singular operaen, indefinite plural operaer, definite plural operaene)

1. an opera
2. an opera house (also operahus)

Derived terms

• operahus
• operasanger, operasangerinne
• såpeopera

References

• “opera” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian opera (per musica)

Noun

opera m (definite singular operaen, indefinite plural operaer or operaar, definite plural operaene or operaane)

1. an opera
2. an opera house (also operahus)

Derived terms

• operahus
• såpeopera

References

• “opera” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?.ra/

Noun

opera f

1. (music) opera (theatrical work)
2. (architecture) opera house (building)

Declension

Related terms

• (noun) operetka
• (adjective) operetkowy

Derived terms

• (adjective) operowy
• (adverb) operowo

Further reading

• opera in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• opera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o.?p?.?a/
• Hyphenation: o?pe?ra
• Rhymes: -?ra

Verb

opera

1. third-person singular present indicative of operar
2. second-person singular imperative of operar

Romanian

Etymology

From French opérer, from Latin operare.

Verb

a opera (third-person singular present opereaz?, past participle operat) 1st conj.

1. to operate

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Noun

?pera f (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. opera

Declension

Spanish

Verb

opera

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of operar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of operar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of operar.

Swahili

Noun

opera (n class, plural opera)

1. opera

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

opera c

1. an opera; a musical theatre play
2. an opera house; an institution or building where opera is performed

Declension

Related terms

• operaföreställning
• operahus
• operett

See also

• libretto
• musikal

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish ópera (“opera”).

Noun

óperá

1. (music) opera

Etymology 2

From Spanish operar (“to operate”).

Verb

óperá

1. to surgically operate

Derived terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English spectacle, from French spectacle, from Latin spect?culum (“a show, spectacle”), from spect? (“to see, behold”), frequentative of speci? (“to see”). See species.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?kt?kl?/
• Hyphenation: spec?ta?cle

Noun

spectacle (plural spectacles)

1. An exciting or extraordinary scene, exhibition, performance etc.
   • 22 March 2012, Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games[1]

     In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.

2. An embarrassing or unedifying scene or situation.

3. (usually in the plural) An optical instrument consisting of two lenses set in a light frame, worn to assist sight, or to protect the eyes from bright light.
4. (figuratively) Something that helps understanding.

   • Povert' a spectacle is, as thinketh me, Through which he may his very friendes see.

5. (obsolete) A spyglass; a looking-glass.
6. The brille of a snake.
7. (rail transport) A frame with different coloured lenses on a semaphore signal through which light from a lamp shines at night, often a part of the signal arm.

Synonyms

• (exciting event): show; pageant
• (optical instrument): glasses, eyeglasses, specs

Derived terms

• bespectacled
• counterspectacle
• make a public spectacle of oneself
• make a spectacle of oneself
• spectacles, testicles, wallet and watch
• superspectacle

Related terms

• species
• spectacular
• speculate

Translations

Further reading

• spectacle in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Railway semaphore signal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin spectaculum, from spectare (“to look”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sp?k.takl/
• Hyphenation: spec?ta?cle

Noun

spectacle m (plural spectacles)

1. a show, a spectacle, a performance, a concert

2. a sight, a showing, a display

Derived terms

• se donner en spectacle

Descendants

• ? Czech: spektákl
• ? Polish: spektakl

Further reading

• “spectacle” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).