opportunus

Latin

Alternative forms

• obportūnus, ōportūnus

Etymology

From ob +‎ portus +‎ -nus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /op.porˈtuː.nus/, [ɔpːɔrˈt̪uːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /op.porˈtu.nus/, [opːorˈt̪uːnus]

Adjective

opportūnus (feminine opportūna, neuter opportūnum, comparative opportūnior, superlative opportūnissimus, adverb opportūnē); first/second-declension adjective

1. suitable

   Synonym: dignus

2. advantageous, useful
3. favourable, opportune, convenient

   Synonyms: ūtilis, commodus, aptus, idōneus, conveniēns, habilis, iūstus, lēgitimus, salūber, ūtēnsilis

   Antonyms: incommodus, inūtilis, ineptus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	opportūnus	opportūna	opportūnum		opportūnī	opportūnae	opportūna
genitive	opportūnī	opportūnae	opportūnī		opportūnōrum	opportūnārum	opportūnōrum
dative	opportūnō	opportūnae	opportūnō		opportūnīs
accusative	opportūnum	opportūnam	opportūnum		opportūnōs	opportūnās	opportūna
ablative	opportūnō	opportūnā	opportūnō		opportūnīs
vocative	opportūne	opportūna	opportūnum		opportūnī	opportūnae	opportūna

Antonyms

• importūnus

Derived terms

• inopportūnus
• opportūnitās

Descendants

• Catalan: oportú
• French: opportun
• Galician: oportuno
• Italian: opportuno
• Piedmontese: oportun
• Portuguese: oportuno
• Romanian: oportun
• Sicilian: oppurtunu
• Spanish: oportuno

References

• “opportunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “opportunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opportunus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• opportunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be favourably situated: opportuno loco situm or positum esse