Meaning of opera | Babel Free

Definitions

1. work, pains, exertion, effort, labour
   declension-1, feminine
2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of opus
   accusative, form-of, nominative, plural, vocative
3. service, rendering of a service
   declension-1, feminine
4. (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
   declension-1, feminine
5. with dative
   declension-1, feminine
6. with ad + accusative
   declension-1, feminine, uncommon
7. with ut/nē + subjunctive
   declension-1, feminine
8. with the subjunctive alone
   declension-1, feminine
9. with the infinitive
   Old-Latin, declension-1, feminine, rare
10. one's fault, agency, doing
    declension-1, feminine
11. (in the ablative, with experior) one's own experience
    Old-Latin, declension-1, feminine
12. (with ūnā or eādem) manner, way
    Old-Latin, declension-1, feminine
13. spare time for something (see Usage notes)
    declension-1, feminine
14. a day's work or labour
    declension-1, feminine, plural-normally
15. day labourer, journeyman, farmhand
    declension-1, feminine, metonymically
16. any kind of worker or labourer
    broadly, declension-1, feminine, metonymically
17. hired aider, tool, rowdy
    declension-1, derogatory, feminine, metonymically
18. deed, activity, effort
    declension-1, feminine
19. that which is wrought or produced, a work, handiwork
    declension-1, feminine
20. Care, attention,
    declension-1, feminine

Equivalents

Examples

“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

“[…] Cn. Pūpium, quī est in operīs eius societātis […]”

[…] Gnaeus Pupius, who is in the service of that association […]

“Ego ĭstūc aetātis nōn amōrī operam dabam […]”

When I was your age I wasn't giving much attention to love […]

“[…] 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.

“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.

“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.

“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.

“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

“[…] 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

“[…] et fallāciīs abiisse eum abs tē meā operā atque astūtiā; […]”

[…] and by deceit he went away from you by my doing and astuteness; […]

“spurcificum, immānem, intolerandum, vēsānum: contrā operā expertus”

obscene, frightful, intolerable, crazy: unlike how I've known you in my experience

“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.

“[…] 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.

“[…] 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.

“Cētera legūmina occupant operās sexāgintā, id est mēnsēs duōs.”

The other vegetables require sixty days' work, that is, two months.

“[…] Ōcius hinc tē”

[…] If you don't make off from here faster, you'll become the ninth farmhand on the Sabine field.

“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.

“[…] 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

“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.

“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?

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