"opera" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: [ˈɔ.pɛ.ra] [Classical-Latin], [ˈɔː.pe.ra] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From opus, operis n (“work”), via reinterpretation of its nominative plural form as a feminine singular noun. Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:from|opus<id:work>|id=work}} Head templates: {{la-noun|opera<1>}} opera f (genitive operae); first declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|opera<1>}} Forms: operae [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], opera [nominative, singular], operae [nominative, plural], operae [genitive, singular], operārum [genitive, plural], operae [dative, singular], operīs [dative, plural], operam [accusative, singular], operās [accusative, plural], operā [ablative, singular], operīs [ablative, plural], opera [singular, vocative], operae [plural, vocative]
  1. work, pains, exertion, effort, labour Tags: declension-1, feminine Synonyms: cōnātus, opus, studium, labor, cūra, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-xE3nJ7An Categories (other): Pages using lite templates
  2. service, rendering of a service Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-nh-Y-zqo
  3. (transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
    with dative
    Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-LNKkb3wW
  4. (transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
    (uncommon) with ad + accusative
    Tags: declension-1, feminine, uncommon
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-PLD-o5nb
  5. (transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
    with ut/nē + subjunctive
    Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-0yYVrtxP
  6. (transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
    with the subjunctive alone
    Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-I91IL9Aa
  7. (transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
    (Old Latin, rare) with the infinitive
    Tags: Old-Latin, declension-1, feminine, rare
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-kpdgdBox
  8. (in the ablative and with possessive pronouns) one's fault, agency, doing Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-fEfIRsDU
  9. (Old Latin) (in the ablative, with experior) one's own experience Tags: Old-Latin, declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-C~H1av~k Categories (other): Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 4 4 7 6 4 5 7 4 10 3 10 4 6 6 6 5 4 5 3
  10. (Old Latin) (with ūnā or eādem) manner, way Tags: Old-Latin, declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-pM5ccQ8L
  11. spare time for something (see Usage notes) Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-O5J4bCem Categories (other): Pages with 28 entries, Pages with entries, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin feminine nouns in the first declension Disambiguation of Pages with 28 entries: 0 0 0 1 5 0 2 2 2 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 1 3 3 0 5 1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 9 3 5 5 5 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 5 1 2 0 5 1 5 1 2 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 0 0 0 5 0 2 2 2 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 3 3 0 6 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 10 4 6 6 6 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0 2 0 6 0 6 0 2 2 1 0 1 3 3 0 Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 2 3 23 8 13 13 13 1 4 5 1 Disambiguation of Latin feminine nouns in the first declension: 4 4 7 6 4 5 7 4 10 3 10 4 6 6 6 5 4 5 3
  12. (usually in the plural) a day's work or labour Tags: declension-1, feminine, plural-normally
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-J~QSZkUB
  13. (metonymic) day labourer, journeyman, farmhand Tags: declension-1, feminine, metonymically
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-mfU~okPv Categories (other): Latin metonyms
  14. (metonymic) day labourer, journeyman, farmhand
    (by extension) any kind of worker or labourer
    Tags: broadly, declension-1, feminine, metonymically
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-rb1XIzOp Categories (other): Latin metonyms
  15. (metonymic) day labourer, journeyman, farmhand
    (derogatory, politics) hired aider, tool, rowdy
    Tags: declension-1, derogatory, feminine, metonymically
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-plkCOS-W Categories (other): Latin metonyms, Politics Topics: government, politics
  16. deed, activity, effort Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-K5ubMgBd
  17. that which is wrought or produced, a work, handiwork Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-KPOQbhZL
  18. (transferred sense) Care, attention, Tags: declension-1, feminine
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-I8leR9si
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: opella, operae prētium, operor, operōsus

Noun

IPA: [ˈɔ.pɛ.ra] [Classical-Latin], [ˈɔː.pe.ra] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From opus, operis n (“work”), via reinterpretation of its nominative plural form as a feminine singular noun. Etymology templates: {{etymon|la|:from|opus<id:work>|id=work}} Head templates: {{head|la|noun form}} opera
  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of opus Tags: accusative, form-of, nominative, plural, vocative Form of: opus
    Sense id: en-opera-la-noun-c7-Mz5Hw

Inflected forms

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      "word": "opella"
    },
    {
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      "word": "operae prētium"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "operor"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "operōsus"
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From opus, operis n (“work”), via reinterpretation of its nominative plural form as a feminine singular noun.",
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    {
      "form": "operae",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opera",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operārum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operam",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operās",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operā",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "opera",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "operae",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "opera<1>"
      },
      "expansion": "opera f (genitive operae); first declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "opera<1>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages using lite templates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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            [
              0,
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          ],
          "english": "there is no need to, there is no time to",
          "text": "operae non est (+ infinitive)",
          "translation": "there is no need to, there is no time to",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "[…] 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",
          "ref": "44 BCE, Cicero, De Officiis 2.4.14",
          "text": "[…] nec hōc tempore sine hominum operā aut pāscere eās aut domāre aut tuērī aut tempestīvōs frūctūs ex iīs capere possēmus",
          "translation": "[…] 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",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "work, pains, exertion, effort, labour"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-xE3nJ7An",
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        [
          "work",
          "work"
        ],
        [
          "pains",
          "pains"
        ],
        [
          "exertion",
          "exertion"
        ],
        [
          "effort",
          "effort"
        ],
        [
          "labour",
          "labour"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "cōnātus"
        },
        {
          "word": "opus"
        },
        {
          "word": "studium"
        },
        {
          "word": "labor"
        },
        {
          "word": "cūra"
        },
        {
          "word": "mōlīmen"
        },
        {
          "word": "intēnsiō"
        },
        {
          "word": "mōlēs"
        },
        {
          "word": "pulvis"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[…] Gnaeus Pupius, who is in the service of that association […]",
          "ref": "62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 13.9.3",
          "text": "[…] Cn. Pūpium, quī est in operīs eius societātis […]",
          "translation": "[…] Gnaeus Pupius, who is in the service of that association […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "service, rendering of a service"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-nh-Y-zqo",
      "links": [
        [
          "service",
          "service"
        ],
        [
          "rendering",
          "rendering"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When I was your age I wasn't giving much attention to love […]",
          "ref": "163 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Heauton Timorumenos 1.1.63",
          "text": "Ego ĭstūc aetātis nōn amōrī operam dabam […]",
          "translation": "When I was your age I wasn't giving much attention to love […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "[…] 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.",
          "ref": "121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Iuli 4",
          "text": "[…] absolūtōque Rhōdum sēcēdere statuit, et ad dēclīnandam invidiam et ut per ōtium ac requiem Apollōniō Molōnī clārissimō tunc dīcendī magistrō operam daret.",
          "translation": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with dative"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-LNKkb3wW",
      "links": [
        [
          "dō",
          "do#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "dative",
          "dative"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with dative"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I want you all to be asked with great care\nto kindly give attention to our company of actors.",
          "ref": "c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina prologus.0.21–22",
          "roman": "benignē ut operam dētis ad nostrum gregem.",
          "text": "Vōs omnīs opere magnō esse ōrātōs volō",
          "translation": "I want you all to be asked with great care\nto kindly give attention to our company of actors.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with ad + accusative"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-PLD-o5nb",
      "links": [
        [
          "dō",
          "do#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "ad",
          "ad#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "accusative",
          "accusative"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "(uncommon) with ad + accusative"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine",
        "uncommon"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I took all the care to withdraw myself from the multitude and by some talent make myself distinguished.",
          "ref": "c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger 2.3",
          "text": "Omnem operam dedī, ut mē multitūdinī ēdūcerem et aliquā dōte nōtābilem facerem.",
          "translation": "I took all the care to withdraw myself from the multitude and by some talent make myself distinguished.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "May the consuls, praetors, tribunes of the people—and those who are near the City—take care that nothing bad happens to the Republic.",
          "ref": "c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 1.5.3",
          "text": "Dent operam cōnsulēs, praetōrēs, tribūnī plēbis—quīque prō cōnsulibus sunt ad urbem—nē quid rēs pūblica dētrimentī capiat.",
          "translation": "May the consuls, praetors, tribunes of the people—and those who are near the City—take care that nothing bad happens to the Republic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with ut/nē + subjunctive"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-0yYVrtxP",
      "links": [
        [
          "dō",
          "do#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "ut",
          "ut#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "nē",
          "ne#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "subjunctive",
          "subjunctive"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with ut/nē + subjunctive"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "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",
          "ref": "62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.21",
          "text": "Ut exercitum locīs habeam opportūnīs, prōvinciam tuear, etiam sī ille exercitus descīerit, omniaque integra servem dabō operam",
          "translation": "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",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with the subjunctive alone"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-I91IL9Aa",
      "links": [
        [
          "dō",
          "do#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with the subjunctive alone"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[…] would it not be more human to turn a blind eye to that than take the trouble to find out",
          "ref": "165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 4.1.37–38",
          "text": "[…] magis hūmānum est quam dare operam id scīre",
          "translation": "[…] would it not be more human to turn a blind eye to that than take the trouble to find out",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "with the infinitive"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-kpdgdBox",
      "links": [
        [
          "dō",
          "do#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "care",
          "care"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ],
        [
          "infinitive",
          "infinitive"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "transferred sense",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transferred sense) (especially with dō) care, attention, exertion bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)",
        "(Old Latin, rare) with the infinitive"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Old-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine",
        "rare"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "[…] and by deceit he went away from you by my doing and astuteness; […]",
          "ref": "c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.5.20–21",
          "text": "[…] et fallāciīs abiisse eum abs tē meā operā atque astūtiā; […]",
          "translation": "[…] and by deceit he went away from you by my doing and astuteness; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "one's fault, agency, doing"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-fEfIRsDU",
      "links": [
        [
          "ablative",
          "ablative"
        ],
        [
          "fault",
          "fault"
        ],
        [
          "agency",
          "agency"
        ],
        [
          "doing",
          "doing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(in the ablative and with possessive pronouns) one's fault, agency, doing"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "in the ablative and with possessive pronouns"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "4 4 7 6 4 5 7 4 10 3 10 4 6 6 6 5 4 5 3",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin feminine nouns in the first declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "obscene, frightful, intolerable, crazy: unlike how I've known you in my experience",
          "ref": "c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 4.1.7",
          "text": "spurcificum, immānem, intolerandum, vēsānum: contrā operā expertus",
          "translation": "obscene, frightful, intolerable, crazy: unlike how I've known you in my experience",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(in the ablative, with experior) one's own experience"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-C~H1av~k",
      "links": [
        [
          "ablative",
          "ablative"
        ],
        [
          "experior",
          "experior#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(Old Latin) (in the ablative, with experior) one's own experience"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "Old-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "And then Alcumeus and Orestes and Lycurgus\nare my friends in the same manner as this one is.",
          "ref": "c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.4.30–31",
          "roman": "ūnā operā mihi sunt sodālēs quā iste.",
          "text": "Et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestēs et Lycurgus posteā",
          "translation": "And then Alcumeus and Orestes and Lycurgus\nare my friends in the same manner as this one is.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "(with ūnā or eādem) manner, way"
      ],
      "id": "en-opera-la-noun-pM5ccQ8L",
      "links": [
        [
          "ūnā",
          "una#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "eādem",
          "eadem#Latin"
        ],
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        "(Old Latin) (with ūnā or eādem) manner, way"
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        "Old-Latin",
        "declension-1",
        "feminine"
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        {
          "english": "[…] 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.",
          "ref": "c. 60 BCE – 54 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem 3.4.4",
          "text": "[…] dēest mihi quidem opera sed abest etiam ἐνθουσιασμός, quī nōn modo tempus sed etiam animum vacuum ab omnī cūrā dēsīderat.",
          "translation": "[…] 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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
          "english": "[…] nor was it worth the time of the consuls when wars from so many tribes were threatening.",
          "ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 4.8",
          "text": "[…] neque cōnsulibus, cum tot populōrum bella imminerent, operae erat id negōtium agere.",
          "translation": "[…] nor was it worth the time of the consuls when wars from so many tribes were threatening.",
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        "spare time for something (see Usage notes)"
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        [
          "spare time",
          "spare time"
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          "Usage notes",
          "#Usage notes"
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        "declension-1",
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        {
          "english": "The other vegetables require sixty days' work, that is, two months.",
          "ref": "4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 2.12.18",
          "text": "Cētera legūmina occupant operās sexāgintā, id est mēnsēs duōs.",
          "translation": "The other vegetables require sixty days' work, that is, two months.",
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        "a day's work or labour"
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          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin metonyms",
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        {
          "english": "[…] If you don't make off\nfrom here faster, you'll become the ninth farmhand on the Sabine field.",
          "ref": "BCE 30, Horace, Satires 2.7.117–118",
          "roman": "nī rapis, accēdēs opera agrō nōna Sabīnō.",
          "text": "[…] Ōcius hinc tē",
          "translation": "[…] If you don't make off\nfrom here faster, you'll become the ninth farmhand on the Sabine field."
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        {
          "english": "He orders by voice and by gesture the miners to be called outside, and rushes down in the same manner.",
          "ref": "77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.73",
          "text": "Hic vōce, nūtū ēvocārī iubet operās pariterque ipse dēvolat.",
          "translation": "He orders by voice and by gesture the miners to be called outside, and rushes down in the same manner.",
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        {
          "english": "[…] 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",
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          "text": "[…] ut equidem mīrer hunc quoque ā nōnnūllīs argentārium atque etiam inter dīvīsōrēs operāsque campestrēs prōditum",
          "translation": "[…] 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",
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        {
          "english": "More distinguished than others in deeds was Gaius Popilius the knight; Sabello was his cognomen.",
          "ref": "59 BCE – 17 CE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 41.4.6",
          "text": "Ante omnēs īnsignis operā fuit C. Popilī equitis; Sabellō cognōmen erat.",
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        {
          "english": "Didn't I order, you scoundrel, Didn't I order the handiwork of spiders to be removed from the columns?",
          "ref": "c. 209 BCE, Plautus, Asinaria 2.4.19",
          "text": "Iussīn columnīs dēicī operās araneōrum?",
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        "(transferred sense) Care, attention,"
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          "text": "[…] nec hōc tempore sine hominum operā aut pāscere eās aut domāre aut tuērī aut tempestīvōs frūctūs ex iīs capere possēmus",
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          "text": "Ego ĭstūc aetātis nōn amōrī operam dabam […]",
          "translation": "When I was your age I wasn't giving much attention to love […]",
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          "ref": "121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita divi Iuli 4",
          "text": "[…] absolūtōque Rhōdum sēcēdere statuit, et ad dēclīnandam invidiam et ut per ōtium ac requiem Apollōniō Molōnī clārissimō tunc dīcendī magistrō operam daret.",
          "translation": "[…] 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.",
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          "ref": "c. 180 BCE, Plautus, Casina prologus.0.21–22",
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      "categories": [
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          "english": "I took all the care to withdraw myself from the multitude and by some talent make myself distinguished.",
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          "english": "May the consuls, praetors, tribunes of the people—and those who are near the City—take care that nothing bad happens to the Republic.",
          "ref": "c. 48 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Civili 1.5.3",
          "text": "Dent operam cōnsulēs, praetōrēs, tribūnī plēbis—quīque prō cōnsulibus sunt ad urbem—nē quid rēs pūblica dētrimentī capiat.",
          "translation": "May the consuls, praetors, tribunes of the people—and those who are near the City—take care that nothing bad happens to the Republic.",
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          "english": "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",
          "ref": "62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 10.21",
          "text": "Ut exercitum locīs habeam opportūnīs, prōvinciam tuear, etiam sī ille exercitus descīerit, omniaque integra servem dabō operam",
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          "text": "[…] magis hūmānum est quam dare operam id scīre",
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          "english": "And then Alcumeus and Orestes and Lycurgus\nare my friends in the same manner as this one is.",
          "ref": "c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 3.4.30–31",
          "roman": "ūnā operā mihi sunt sodālēs quā iste.",
          "text": "Et quidem Alcumeus atque Orestēs et Lycurgus posteā",
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          "english": "[…] 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.",
          "ref": "c. 60 BCE – 54 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Quintum Fratrem 3.4.4",
          "text": "[…] dēest mihi quidem opera sed abest etiam ἐνθουσιασμός, quī nōn modo tempus sed etiam animum vacuum ab omnī cūrā dēsīderat.",
          "translation": "[…] 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.",
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          "english": "[…] nor was it worth the time of the consuls when wars from so many tribes were threatening.",
          "ref": "27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 4.8",
          "text": "[…] neque cōnsulibus, cum tot populōrum bella imminerent, operae erat id negōtium agere.",
          "translation": "[…] nor was it worth the time of the consuls when wars from so many tribes were threatening.",
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          "english": "The other vegetables require sixty days' work, that is, two months.",
          "ref": "4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Re Rustica 2.12.18",
          "text": "Cētera legūmina occupant operās sexāgintā, id est mēnsēs duōs.",
          "translation": "The other vegetables require sixty days' work, that is, two months.",
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          "english": "[…] If you don't make off\nfrom here faster, you'll become the ninth farmhand on the Sabine field.",
          "ref": "BCE 30, Horace, Satires 2.7.117–118",
          "roman": "nī rapis, accēdēs opera agrō nōna Sabīnō.",
          "text": "[…] Ōcius hinc tē",
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          "text": "Hic vōce, nūtū ēvocārī iubet operās pariterque ipse dēvolat.",
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          "ref": "121 CE, Suetonius, The Twelve Caesars Vita Divi Augusti 3",
          "text": "[…] ut equidem mīrer hunc quoque ā nōnnūllīs argentārium atque etiam inter dīvīsōrēs operāsque campestrēs prōditum",
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          "english": "More distinguished than others in deeds was Gaius Popilius the knight; Sabello was his cognomen.",
          "ref": "59 BCE – 17 CE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita libri 41.4.6",
          "text": "Ante omnēs īnsignis operā fuit C. Popilī equitis; Sabellō cognōmen erat.",
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          "english": "Didn't I order, you scoundrel, Didn't I order the handiwork of spiders to be removed from the columns?",
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          "text": "Iussīn columnīs dēicī operās araneōrum?",
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