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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

Borrowed from Latin operat?r, from operor (“work, labour”). Equivalent to operate +? -or.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

operator (countable and uncountable, plural operators)

1. One who operates.
2. A telecommunications facilitator whose job is to establish temporary network connections.
3. (mathematics) A function or other mapping that carries variables defined on a domain into another variable or set of variables in a defined range.
4. (uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
5. (informal) A person who is adept at making deals or getting results, especially one who uses questionable methods.
   • 1990, House of Cards, Season 1, Episode 1:

     Francis Urquhart: I think Lord Billsborough is starting to lose touch a bit.
     Tim Stamper: Shame. Used to be a hell of an operator in his day.

6. A member of a military special operations unit.
7. (computing) The administrator of a channel or network on IRC.
8. (computing) A symbol that represents a construct in a programming language and differs from a normal function in its syntax.
9. (linguistics) A kind of expression that enters into an a-bar movement dependency and is said to bind a variable.

   In the sentence "What did Bill say he wants to buy?", "what" is an operator, binding a phonetically empty variable.

Hyponyms

Related terms

Translations

References

• operator on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• aeroport, aëroport, poor rate

Latin

Etymology

operor +? -tor.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

oper?tor m (genitive oper?t?ris); third declension

1. worker, operator

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Verb

oper?tor

1. second-person singular future active imperative of operor
2. third-person singular future active imperative of operor

References

• operator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• operator in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• operator in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

• Ultimately from Latin oper?tor (“worker”), probably through English operator.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /o?p?????to??/

Noun

operator ?

1. surgeon

Polish

Etymology

From French opérateur, from Latin oper?tor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?.p??ra.t?r/

Noun

operator m pers (feminine operatorka)

1. machinist, operator
2. (medicine) surgeon

   Synonym: chirurg

3. (cinematography) cameraman, cinematographer
4. (telecommunications) operator (company providing operator services)

Declension

Noun

operator m inan

1. (mathematics) operator
2. (linguistics) operator

Declension

Derived terms

• (noun) operatornia
• (adjectives) operatorski, operatorowy

Further reading

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

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /op?ra?tor/
• Hyphenation: o?pe?ra?tor

Noun

opèr?tor m (Cyrillic spelling ?????????)

1. (mathematics) operator

Declension

Swedish

Noun

operator c

1. (mathematics, computing) an operator

Declension