"opposit" meaning in English

See opposit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Etymology: Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|opposit|}} Middle English opposit, {{uder|en|la|oppositus}} Latin oppositus, {{m|la|oppōnō||I oppose}} oppōnō (“I oppose”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} opposit (not comparable)
  1. Archaic form of opposite. Tags: alt-of, archaic, not-comparable Alternative form of: opposite
    Sense id: en-opposit-en-adj-lHU3aH2M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 32 35 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 35 36 29 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 26 26 20 27 1 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 25 26 19 29 1

Noun

Forms: opposits [plural]
Etymology: Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|opposit|}} Middle English opposit, {{uder|en|la|oppositus}} Latin oppositus, {{m|la|oppōnō||I oppose}} oppōnō (“I oppose”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} opposit (plural opposits)
  1. Archaic form of opposite. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: opposite
    Sense id: en-opposit-en-noun-lHU3aH2M Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 32 35 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 35 36 29 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 26 26 20 27 1 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 25 26 19 29 1

Verb

Forms: opposits [present, singular, third-person], oppositing [participle, present], opposited [participle, past], opposited [past]
Etymology: Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|enm|opposit|}} Middle English opposit, {{uder|en|la|oppositus}} Latin oppositus, {{m|la|oppōnō||I oppose}} oppōnō (“I oppose”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} opposit (third-person singular simple present opposits, present participle oppositing, simple past and past participle opposited)
  1. to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny
    Sense id: en-opposit-en-verb-H9-RivIG Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English undefined derivations, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 32 32 35 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 35 36 29 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 26 26 20 27 1 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 25 26 19 29 1

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for opposit meaning in English (6.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "opposit",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English opposit",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "oppositus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin oppositus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "oppōnō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I oppose"
      },
      "expansion": "oppōnō (“I oppose”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "opposit (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "opposite"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 32 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 36 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 26 20 27 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 26 19 29 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, Egbert P. Watson, “XXV—Elementary Principles of Alternating Currents”, in The Engineer: With Which Is Incorporated Steam Engineer, volume 43 (Engineering), published 2011, page 680",
          "text": "… direction of the surface of the wire, and in the opposit direction at the axis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, George Starr White, Think; Side Lights, What Others Say, Clinical Cases, Etc, Digitized edition, published 2007",
          "text": "If a person has lost one tooth, the tooth opposit is of no use in mastication ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Joseph Bowden, Elements of the Theory of Intergers, Digitized edition, published 2010, page 65",
          "text": "Since every primary number represents some integer (§ 160), every primary number has its opposit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David F. Task, quoting William Clark, 1804, The War with Spain in 1898 (Military History), U of Nebraska Press, page 402",
          "text": "… passed the mouth of Papillion or Butter fly Creek 3 miles on the L. S. a large Sand bar opposit on that Side ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of opposite."
      ],
      "id": "en-opposit-en-adj-lHU3aH2M",
      "links": [
        [
          "opposite",
          "opposite#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opposit"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "opposit",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English opposit",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "oppositus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin oppositus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "oppōnō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I oppose"
      },
      "expansion": "oppōnō (“I oppose”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opposits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "opposit (plural opposits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "opposite"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 32 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 36 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 26 20 27 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 26 19 29 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of opposite."
      ],
      "id": "en-opposit-en-noun-lHU3aH2M",
      "links": [
        [
          "opposite",
          "opposite#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opposit"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "opposit",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English opposit",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "oppositus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin oppositus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "oppōnō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I oppose"
      },
      "expansion": "oppōnō (“I oppose”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opposits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oppositing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opposited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opposited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "opposit (third-person singular simple present opposits, present participle oppositing, simple past and past participle opposited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "32 32 35",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "35 36 29",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English undefined derivations",
          "parents": [
            "Undefined derivations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "26 26 20 27 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 26 19 29 1",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny"
      ],
      "id": "en-opposit-en-verb-H9-RivIG"
    }
  ],
  "word": "opposit"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "Middle English adjectives",
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms with quotations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "opposit",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English opposit",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "oppositus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin oppositus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "oppōnō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I oppose"
      },
      "expansion": "oppōnō (“I oppose”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”).",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "opposit (not comparable)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "opposite"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English archaic forms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1906, Egbert P. Watson, “XXV—Elementary Principles of Alternating Currents”, in The Engineer: With Which Is Incorporated Steam Engineer, volume 43 (Engineering), published 2011, page 680",
          "text": "… direction of the surface of the wire, and in the opposit direction at the axis.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1920, George Starr White, Think; Side Lights, What Others Say, Clinical Cases, Etc, Digitized edition, published 2007",
          "text": "If a person has lost one tooth, the tooth opposit is of no use in mastication ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, Joseph Bowden, Elements of the Theory of Intergers, Digitized edition, published 2010, page 65",
          "text": "Since every primary number represents some integer (§ 160), every primary number has its opposit.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1996, David F. Task, quoting William Clark, 1804, The War with Spain in 1898 (Military History), U of Nebraska Press, page 402",
          "text": "… passed the mouth of Papillion or Butter fly Creek 3 miles on the L. S. a large Sand bar opposit on that Side ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of opposite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "opposite",
          "opposite#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic",
        "not-comparable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opposit"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "Middle English adjectives",
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms with quotations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "opposit",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English opposit",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "oppositus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin oppositus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "oppōnō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I oppose"
      },
      "expansion": "oppōnō (“I oppose”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opposits",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "opposit (plural opposits)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "opposite"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English archaic forms"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Archaic form of opposite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "opposite",
          "opposite#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opposit"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English uncomparable adjectives",
    "English undefined derivations",
    "English verbs",
    "Middle English adjectives",
    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms with quotations"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "opposit",
        "4": ""
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English opposit",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "oppositus"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin oppositus",
      "name": "uder"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "oppōnō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I oppose"
      },
      "expansion": "oppōnō (“I oppose”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Middle English opposit, from Latin oppositus, perfect passive participle of oppōnō (“I oppose”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "opposits",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "oppositing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opposited",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opposited",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "opposit (third-person singular simple present opposits, present participle oppositing, simple past and past participle opposited)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to posit or assume as a contradictory; negative or deny"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "opposit"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.