Noun: uopo
Gender: m
Hyphenation: uò‧po
| Singular m | uopo |
| Plural m | uopi |
Sample Sentences
-
ultimo uopo (crucial moment; decisive moment)
-
Sì fa con noi, come l’uom si fa sego;
-
ché quale aspetta prego e l’uopo vede,
-
malignamente già si mette al nego. (He acts towards us as a man acts towards himself, for he who awaits for a request and sees the need is already malignantly preparing for refusal.) [1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XVII”, in Purgatorio [Purgatory], lines 58–60; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
-
[…] esso a mill'uopi
-
Opportuno si vanta […] (It is praised as suitable for a thousand needs) [1763 March, Giuseppe Parini, Il mattino [Morning]; collected in Opere dell'abate Giuseppe Parini, volume 1, Venice: Giacomo Storti, 1803, page 58:]
-
Eccoti solo, o re; non un ti resta
-
Dei tanti amici, o servi tuoi. – Sei paga,
-
D’inesorabil Dio terribil ira? –
-
Ma, tu mi resti, o brando: all’ultim’uopo,
-
Fido ministro, or vieni. […] (Here you are, o king, alone: not one of your many friends or servants is left. Are you content, terrible wrath of an inexorable God? But I have you, sword, left in the crucial moment: now come, you faithful servant.) [1782, Vittorio Alfieri, “Scena V [Scene 5]”, Atto quinto [Fifth act], in Saul; republished in Tragedie di Vittorio Alfieri da Asti, volume 2, Florence: Felice Le Monnier, 1855, page 53:]
Nouns inflected like uopo
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin opus, cognate with Old Spanish uebos, Romanian op. See: Latin Nouns '
opus', Old Spanish Nouns '
uebos', Romanian Nouns '
op'.
Verbs referencing "uopo"
Romanian Nouns
op, Old Spanish Nouns
uebos.
Translations