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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin opus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?s/, /??p?s/
• Rhymes: -??p?s, -?p?s

Noun

opus (plural opuses or opera)

1. (music) A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works.

2. A work, especially of art.

Translations

Usage notes

The most common plural of opus in English is opuses. Some people use the Latin plural, opera. Opi is fairly common in the field of classical music, though mostly in informal contexts. The use of any of these three pluralizations may result in the speaker being corrected, though opi, above all, should be avoided in formal contexts. Outside of music, the word opus sees particularly frequent use in the expression magnum opus.

Anagrams

• POUs, PUOs, Pous, pous, puso, soup

Czech

Etymology

Latin opus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?opus]
• Hyphenation: opus

Noun

opus m inan

1. opus

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

• opus in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• opus in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• puso

Dutch

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin opus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o?.p?s/
• Hyphenation: opus

Noun

opus n (plural opera or opussen, diminutive opusje n)

1. opus

Related terms

• oeuvre
• opera

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin opus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?opus/, [?o?pus?]
• Rhymes: -opus
• Syllabification: o?pus

Noun

opus

1. (colloquial) book
2. (music) opus

Declension

Anagrams

• sopu, supo

Italian

Etymology

Latin opus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pus/

Noun

opus m (plural opus)

1. opus

Latin

Alternative forms

• op. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From a Proto-Indo-European *h?ép-os (“work”), from the verbal root *h?ep- (“to work”), whence also ops and omnis. Cognates include Sanskrit ???? (ápas, “work, action”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?o.pus/, [??p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?o.pus/, [???pus]

Noun

opus n (genitive operis); third declension

1. work, accomplishment
2. workmanship, artwork, work (of art, literature, etc.)
3. need
4. art, skill (when in the ablative)
5. (ecclesiastical) work (of God), deed, (miraculous) work

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Usage notes

The sense of "need" is only used in the nominative and accusative singulars.

Derived terms

• magnum opus
• manuopus (Medieval Latin)
• opera
• operor
• opusculum
• operistitium

Descendants

Note: see opera for descendants of the plural form.

References

• opus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• opus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• opus in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia?^[2]
• opus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[3], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• opus in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• opus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ?ISBN, page 432

Portuguese

Verb

opus

1. First-person singular (eu) preterite indicative of opor

Romanian

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?pus/

Adjective

opus m or n (feminine singular opus?, masculine plural opu?i, feminine and neuter plural opuse)

1. opposite, contrary
2. reverse

Noun

opus

1. the opposite, contrary
2. reverse

Synonyms

• contrar

Participle

opus

1. past participle of opune

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin opus. Compare also the inherited doublet op.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?o.pus/

Noun

opus n (plural opusuri)

1. opus, musical composition or work

English

Etymology

From Latin oper?tus, past participle of oper?r? (“to work, labor, toil, have effect”), from opus, operis (“work, labor”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??p??e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??p??e?t/
• Hyphenation: op?er?ate

Verb

operate (third-person singular simple present operates, present participle operating, simple past and past participle operated)

1. (transitive or intransitive) To perform a work or labour; to exert power or strength, physical or mechanical; to act.
2. (transitive or intransitive) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (medicine) to take appropriate effect on the human system.
3. (transitive or intransitive) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
   • September 28, 1706, Francis Atterbury, a sermon

     The virtues of private persons operate but on a few.

   • 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman

     A plain, convincing reason operates on the mind both of a learned and ignorant hearer as long as they live.

4. (medicine, transitive or intransitive) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
5. (transitive or intransitive) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
6. (transitive or intransitive) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
7. (transitive or intransitive) To put into, or to continue in, operation or activity; to work.

Derived terms

• inter-operate
• operatable

Related terms

Translations

References

• operate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• operate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Italian

Adjective

operate pl

1. plural of operata

Verb

operate

1. second-person plural present of operare
2. second-person plural imperative of operare
3. feminine plural past participle of operare

Anagrams

• poetare
• poeterà

Latin

Participle

oper?te

1. vocative masculine singular of oper?tus