opus – Latin noun declension

Noun: opus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Neuter Declension: Third

Nominative

Singular	opus
Plural	opera

Genitive

Singular	operis
Plural	operum

Dative

Singular	operī
Plural	operibus

Accusative

Singular	opus
Plural	opera

Ablative

Singular	opere
Plural	operibus

Vocative

Singular	opus
Plural	opera

Sample Sentences

cessat opus; vacuae conticuēre molae (Work stops; the empty millstones have fallen silent.) [8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.348]
opus esse +nom. or +abl. of the thing needed (to have need of, there is need of)
alicui opus est aliquo (someone needs something)
opus est (it is necessary)
mihi frumentum non opus est (I do not need the grain)
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, […]) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 26.1]
Omnia Geōmetriae Problēmata facile ad hujusmodī terminōs redūcī possunt, ut deinde ad illōrum cōnstrūctiōnem, opus tantum sit rēctārum quārundam līneārum longitūdinem cognōscere. (All Problems of Geometry can easily be reduced to such terms, that afterwards for their construction, there is only need [or it is only necessary] to get to know the length of certain straight lines.) [1683 [1637], René Descartes, Geōmetria, section 1, page 1:]
CHREMĒS: Āh, nē saevī tantō opere. (Or, elided) Āh, nē saevī tantopere.
(Literally) Ah, don’t be savage to such a great extent. (Or, simply) Oh, don’t be so cruel.
(Grammar: tantō is an ablative singular adjective modifying the ablative singular noun opere. Together they form an ablative of manner or degree: “to such an extent.” The conjoined version, tantopere, functions as a single adverb with the same meaning.) [166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 868]
opus africanum, opus craticum, opus emplectum, opus gallicum, opus incertum, opus isodomum, opus latericium, opus mixtum, opus quadratum, opus reticulatum, opus vittatum, etc. (various types thereof, see The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, 2015, pp.536-537)

Nouns inflected like opus

scelus, vīscus, subgenus, quadrilatus, genus, latus, holus, fūnus, mūnus, ulcus, sīdus, rūdus, foedus, glomus, pondus, vulnus, vellus, volnus, onus, olus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

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”).

Verbs referencing "opus"

Finnish Nouns opus, French Nouns opus, Italian Nouns opus, Romanian Nouns op, English Nouns oeuvre, Latvian Nouns āpsis, Italian Nouns uopo, Old Spanish Nouns uebos, German Nouns Opus.