opus
Definitiones
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work, labor, accomplishment declension-3, neuter
- The capital city of the Locri and birthplace of Patroclus
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workmanship, artwork, work (of art, literature, etc.) declension-3, neuter
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need, necessity declension-3, neuter
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art, skill (when in the ablative) declension-3, neuter
- work (of God), deed, (miraculous) work
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extent declension-3, neuter
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masonry, construction technique, construction material declension-3, neuter
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العربيةصنعة
Češtinadílo
Deutsch(fachmännische) Verarbeitung(handwerkliche) Ausführung(handwerkliche) Verarbeitung(handwerkliches) KönnenKunstwerkVerarbeitung
Esperantoverko
हिन्दीकलाकृति
Հայերենվարպետություն
Kurdîmû
Latinamanupretium
मराठीकलाकृती
Portuguêsobra de arte
Svenskakonstverk
Kiswahilisanaa
తెలుగుపనితనము
Українськавитвір
Exempla
“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
Gradus CEFR
B1
Medius
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
Hoc verbum pars est vocabularii CEFR B1 — gradus medius.
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