oppone

English

Etymology

From Latin opponere. See opponent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈpəʊn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

oppone (third-person singular simple present oppones, present participle opponing, simple past and past participle opponed)

1. (obsolete) To oppose.
   • 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC; reprinted Menston, Yorkshire: The Scolar Press, 1970, →OCLC, (please specify the GB page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     Out of his Indies: what can you not do,
     Against lords spiritual, or temporal,
     That shall oppone you?

Related terms

• opponent

References

• “oppone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Italian

Verb

oppone

1. third-person singular present indicative of opporre

Anagrams

• popone

Latin

Verb

oppōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of oppōnō