opera – Latin noun declension

Latin noun forms of opera

Noun: opera
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singularopera
Pluraloperae

Genitive

Singularoperae
Pluraloperārum

Dative

Singularoperae
Pluraloperīs

Accusative

Singularoperam
Pluraloperās

Ablative

Singularoperā
Pluraloperīs

Vocative

Singularopera
Pluraloperae

Sample Sentences

  • operae non est (+ infinitive) (there is no need to, there is no time to)
  • […] nec hōc tempore sine hominum operā aut pāscere eās aut domāre aut tuērī aut tempestīvōs frūctūs ex iīs capere possēmus ([…] and we cannot in the present either pasture them or break them in or take care of them or obtain the timely fruit from them without the labour of humans) [44 BCE, Cicero, De officiis 2.4.14]
  • […] Cn. Pūpium, quī est in operīs eius societātis […] ([…] Gnaeus Pupius, who is in the service of that association […]) [106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.9.3]
  • Ego ĭstūc aetātis nōn amōrī operam dabam […] (When I was your age I wasn't giving much attention to love […]) [163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1.1.63]
  • […] absolūtōque Rhōdum sēcēdere statuit, et ad dēclīnandam invidiam et ut per ōtium ac requiem Apollōniō Molōnī clārissimō tunc dīcendī magistrō operam daret. ([…] with him acquitted, he resolved to leave for Rhodes, to escape the hate as well as to pay attention in rest and recreation to Apollonius Molon, then the most distinguished teacher of speaking.) [121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita divi Iuli 4]
  • Vōs omnīs opere magnō esse ōrātōs volō (I want you all to be asked with great care
  • to kindly give attention to our company of actors.) [c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina prologus.0.21–22]
  • Omnem operam dedī, ut mē multitūdinī ēdūcerem et aliquā dōte nōtābilem facerem. (I took all the care to withdraw myself from the multitude and by some talent make myself distinguished.) [c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor 2.3]
  • Dent operam cōnsulēs, praetōrēs, tribūnī plēbis—quīque prō cōnsulibus sunt ad urbem—nē quid rēs pūblica dētrimentī capiat. (May the consuls, praetors, tribunes of the people—and those who are near the City—take care that nothing bad happens to the Republic.) [c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello civili 1.5.3]
  • Ut exercitum locīs habeam opportūnīs, prōvinciam tuear, etiam sī ille exercitus descīerit, omniaque integra servem dabō operam (I shall take care to keep the army in suitable locations, to protect my province even if that army defects, and to preserve the whole position uncompromised) [106 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.21]
  • […] magis hūmānum est quam dare operam id scīre ([…] would it not be more human to turn a blind eye to that than take the trouble to find out) [165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 4.1.37–38]
  • […] et fallāciīs abiisse eum abs tē meā operā atque astūtiā;[…] ([…] and by deceit he went away from you by my doing and astuteness; […]) [c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.5.20–21]
  • spurcificum, immānem, intolerandum, vēsānum: contrā operā expertus (obscene, frightful, intolerable, crazy: unlike how I've known you in my experience) [c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 4.1.7]
  • Et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestēs et Lycurgus posteā (And then Alcumeus and Orestes and Lycurgus
  • are my friends in the same manner as this one is.) [c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.4.30–31]
  • […] dēest mihi quidem opera sed abest etiam ἐνθουσιασμός, quī nōn modo tempus sed etiam animum vacuum ab omnī cūrā dēsīderat. ([…] I don't have the time, but the afflatus is absent too, which needs not only time but also a soul empty of every worry.) [c. 60 BCE – 54 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem 3.4.4]
  • […] neque cōnsulibus, cum tot populōrum bella imminerent, operae erat id negōtium agere. ([…] nor was it worth the time of the consuls when wars from so many tribes were threatening.) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 4.8]
  • Cētera legūmina occupant operās sexāgintā, id est mēnsēs duōs. (The other vegetables require sixty days' work, that is, two months.) [4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 2.12.18]
  • […]Ōcius hinc tē ([…] If you don't make off
  • from here faster, you'll become the ninth farmhand on the Sabine field.) [c. 35 BCE, Horatius, Sermones 2.7.117–118]
  • Hic vōce, nūtū ēvocārī iubet operās pariterque ipse dēvolat. (He orders by voice and by gesture the miners to be called outside, and rushes down in the same manner.) [77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 33.73]
  • […] ut equidem mīrer hunc quoque ā nōnnūllīs argentārium atque etiam inter dīvīsōrēs operāsque campestrēs prōditum ([…] so that I wonder that he too is alleged by some to have been a money-changer and even among the electoral bribe distributors and aiders in the Campus Martius) [121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum Vita Divi Augusti 3]
  • Ante omnēs īnsignis operā fuit C. Popilī equitis; Sabellō cognōmen erat. (More distinguished than others in deeds was Gaius Popilius the knight; Sabello was his cognomen.) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 41.4.6]
  • Iussīn columnīs dēicī operās araneōrum? (Didn't I order, you scoundrel, Didn't I order the handiwork of spiders to be removed from the columns?) [c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 2.4.19]

Nouns inflected like opera

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From opus, operis n (“work”), via reinterpretation of its nominative plural form as a feminine singular noun.

Verbs referencing "opera"

Italian Nouns opera, Irish Nouns obair, French Nouns œuvre, English Nouns oeuvre, Catalan Nouns obra, Galician Nouns obra, Portuguese Nouns obra, Spanish Nouns obra, Galician Nouns ópera, Portuguese Nouns ópera, Spanish Nouns ópera, English Nouns ure, Middle English Nouns ure, Old Spanish Nouns huebra, Spanish Nouns huebra, French Nouns opéra, English Nouns operameter.

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