See also: öpüş

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin opus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈəʊpəs/, /ˈɒpəs/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -əʊpəs, -ɒpəs

NounEdit

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.
    Beethoven's opus eighteen quartets are considered by many to be the beginning of the Romantic era.
  2. A work, especially of art.
    The painter's last opus was a dedication to all things living, in a surprising contrast to all of his prior work.

Usage notesEdit

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.

Abbreviations: op., Op.

TranslationsEdit

AnagramsEdit

CzechEdit

EtymologyEdit

Derived from Latin opus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): [ˈopus]
  • Hyphenation: opus

NounEdit

opus m inan

  1. opus

DeclensionEdit

Related termsEdit

Further readingEdit

  • opus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • opus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

AnagramsEdit

DutchEdit

EtymologyEdit

Learned borrowing from Latin opus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.pʏs/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: opus

NounEdit

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

  1. opus

Related termsEdit

FinnishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin opus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈopus/, [ˈo̞pus̠]
  • Rhymes: -opus
  • Syllabification(key): o‧pus

NounEdit

opus

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

DeclensionEdit

Inflection of opus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative opus opukset
genitive opuksen opusten
opuksien
partitive opusta opuksia
illative opukseen opuksiin
singular plural
nominative opus opukset
accusative nom. opus opukset
gen. opuksen
genitive opuksen opusten
opuksien
partitive opusta opuksia
inessive opuksessa opuksissa
elative opuksesta opuksista
illative opukseen opuksiin
adessive opuksella opuksilla
ablative opukselta opuksilta
allative opukselle opuksille
essive opuksena opuksina
translative opukseksi opuksiksi
instructive opuksin
abessive opuksetta opuksitta
comitative opuksineen
Possessive forms of opus (type vastaus)
possessor singular plural
1st person opukseni opuksemme
2nd person opuksesi opuksenne
3rd person opuksensa

AnagramsEdit

FrenchEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin opus. Doublet of œuvre and opéra.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

opus m (plural opus)

  1. opus, artistic work
    Synonym: œuvre

Further readingEdit

ItalianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from Latin opus.

PronunciationEdit

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.pus/
  • Rhymes: -ɔpus
  • Syllabification: ò‧pus

NounEdit

opus m

  1. opus

LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

  • op. (abbreviation)

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *opos, from a Proto-Indo-European *h₃ép-os (work), from the verbal root *h₃ep- (to work), whence also ops and omnis. Cognates include Sanskrit अपस् (ápas, work, action).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

opus n (genitive operis); third declension

  1. work, labor, accomplishment
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.348:
      cessat opus; vacuae conticuēre molae
      Work stops; the empty millstones have fallen silent.
    Synonyms: cōnātus, studium, opera, labor, cūra, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis
  2. workmanship, artwork, work (of art, literature, etc.)
    Synonym: cūra
  3. need, necessity
    Synonyms: egestās, pēnūria, paupertās, dēsīderium, necessitās, inopia, indigentia, ūsus
    opus esse +nom. or +abl. of the thing neededto have need of, there is need of
    alicui opus est aliquosomeone needs something
    opus estit is necessary
    mihi frumentum non opus estI do not need the grain
    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 26.1:
      Si supplemento opus esset, suppleret de legionibus quibus P. Cornelius pro praetore in Sicilia praeesset, []
      If reinforcements were needed, he should supply them with the legions which Publius Cornelius, propraetor, was in charge of in Sicily, []
  4. art, skill (when in the ablative)
    Synonyms: opera, ars, artificium
  5. (ecclesiastical) work (of God), deed, (miraculous) work
  6. (in adverbial phrases) extent

Usage notesEdit

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

DeclensionEdit

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

Case Singular Plural
Nominative opus opera
Genitive operis operum
Dative operī operibus
Accusative opus opera
Ablative opere operibus
Vocative opus opera

Derived termsEdit

DescendantsEdit

Note: see opera for descendants of the plural form.

  • Catalan: ops
  • English: opus
  • Old French: ues, oes, (part of) estovoir
  • Italian: uopo
  • Old Occitan: ops
  • Romanian: op, opus
  • Russian: о́пус (ópus)
  • Old Spanish: uebos, huebos
  • Spanish: opus
  • Swedish: opus

ReferencesEdit

  • 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 Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2023) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • opus 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)
  • opus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to devote every spare moment to...; to work without intermission at a thing: nullum tempus intermittere, quin (also ab opere, or ad opus)
    • to entreat earnestly; to make urgent requests: magno opere, vehementer, etiam atque etiam rogare aliquem
    • to do work (especially agricultural): opus facere (De Senect. 7. 24)
    • to take a task in hand, engage upon it: opus aggredi
    • to take a task in hand, engage upon it: ad opus faciendum accedere
    • a work of art: artis opus; opus arte factum or perfectum
    • a master-piece of classical work: opus summo artificio[TR1] factum
    • a master-piece of classical work: opus omnibus numeris absolutum
    • to polish, finish a work with the greatest care: perpolire, limare diligenter librum, opus
    • to contract for the building of something: opus locare
    • to undertake the contract for a work: opus redimere, conducere
    • tillage; cultivation: opus rusticum
    • a town artificially fortified: oppidum manu (opere) munitum
    • to set fire to the siege-works: ignem inferre operibus (B. C. 2. 14)
    • in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    • (ambiguous) to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omni ope atque opera or omni virium contentione eniti, ut
    • (ambiguous) designedly; intentionally: de industria, dedita opera (opp. imprudens)
    • (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
    • (ambiguous) to let out public works to contract: locare opera publica
    • (ambiguous) to raise siege-works: opera facere
  • 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

PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

opus

  1. first-person singular preterite indicative of opor

RomanianEdit

Etymology 1Edit

PronunciationEdit

AdjectiveEdit

opus m or n (feminine singular opusă, masculine plural opuși, feminine and neuter plural opuse)

  1. opposite, contrary
  2. reverse
DeclensionEdit

NounEdit

opus

  1. the opposite, contrary
  2. reverse
SynonymsEdit

ParticipleEdit

opus

  1. past participle of opune

Etymology 2Edit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

opus n (plural opusuri)

  1. opus, musical composition or work