Meaning of opus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. work, labor, accomplishment
   declension-3, neuter
2. The capital city of the Locri and birthplace of Patroclus
   declension-3
3. workmanship, artwork, work (of art, literature, etc.)
   declension-3, neuter
4. need, necessity
   declension-3, neuter
5. art, skill (when in the ablative)
   declension-3, neuter
6. work (of God), deed, (miraculous) work
   Ecclesiastical, Latin, declension-3, neuter
7. extent
   declension-3, neuter
8. masonry, construction technique, construction material
   declension-3, neuter

Equivalents

Examples

“cessat opus; vacuae conticuēre molae”

Work stops; the empty millstones have fallen silent.

“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, […]

“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.

“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.)”

“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

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