opera

See also: Opera, ópera, opéra, operá, òpera, and operă

English

Opéra Garnier in Paris

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian opera. Doublet of oeuvre.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒp.əɹ.ə/, /ˈɒp.ɹə/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.pəɹ.ə/, /ˈɑ.pɹə/
  • (file)

Noun

opera (countable and uncountable, plural operas or opere)

  1. (music) A theatrical work, combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance.
  2. (music) The score for such a work.
  3. A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
    • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VI, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:
      “I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera, the gorged dowagers, [], the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!"
  4. A company dedicated to performing such works.
  5. (by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.
  6. A collection of work; plural of opus.

Derived terms

Terms etymologically related to "opera"

Translations

See also

Anagrams


Azerbaijani

Noun

opera (definite accusative operanı, plural operalar)

  1. opera

Declension


Catalan

Verb

opera

  1. third-person singular present indicative form of operar
  2. second-person singular imperative form of operar

Czech

Noun

opera f

  1. opera

Further reading

  • opera in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • opera in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera, plural of opus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.pəˌraː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ope‧ra

Noun

opera f (plural opera's, diminutive operaatje n)

  1. opera

Derived terms


Esperanto

Etymology

From opero (opera) + -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /oˈpera/
  • Rhymes: -era

Adjective

opera (accusative singular operan, plural operaj, accusative plural operajn)

  1. of or relating to opera

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈopɛrɒ]
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: ope‧ra

Noun

opera (plural operák)

  1. (music) opera (a theatrical work combining drama, music, song and sometimes dance)
  2. (music) opera, opera house (building designed for the performance of such works)

Declension

Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative opera operák
accusative operát operákat
dative operának operáknak
instrumental operával operákkal
causal-final operáért operákért
translative operává operákká
terminative operáig operákig
essive-formal operaként operákként
essive-modal
inessive operában operákban
superessive operán operákon
adessive operánál operáknál
illative operába operákba
sublative operára operákra
allative operához operákhoz
elative operából operákból
delative operáról operákról
ablative operától operáktól
Possessive forms of opera
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. operám operáim
2nd person sing. operád operáid
3rd person sing. operája operái
1st person plural operánk operáink
2nd person plural operátok operáitok
3rd person plural operájuk operáik

Synonyms

Derived terms

Compound words

References

  1. Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

Italian

Etymology

From Latin opera.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

opera f (plural opere)

  1. work
  2. means, help, services
  3. (music) opus
  4. (music) opera
  5. institution, institute, society

Synonyms

Verb

opera

  1. third-person singular present of operare
  2. second-person singular imperative of operare

Ladin

Noun

opera f (plural operes)

  1. work

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈo.pe.ra/, [ˈɔ.pɛ.ra]

Noun

opera

  1. nominative and accusative plural of opus

Noun

opera f (genitive operae); first declension (Vulgar Latin)

  1. trouble, pains, exertion
  2. work, labour

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative opera operae
Genitive operae operārum
Dative operae operīs
Accusative operam operās
Ablative operā operīs
Vocative opera operae

Descendants

References

  • opera in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • opera in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • opera in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to take care of one's health: valetudini consulere, operam dare
    • to take great pains in order to..: studiose (diligenter, enixe, sedulo, maxime) dare operam, ut...
    • to expend great labour on a thing: egregiam operam (multum, plus etc. operae) dare alicui rei
    • to expend great labour on a thing: operam alicui rei tribuere, in aliquid conferre
    • to expend great labour on a thing: operam (laborem, curam) in or ad aliquid impendere
    • to exert oneself very energetically in a matter: multum operae ac laboris consumere in aliqua re
    • to spare no pains: labori, operae non parcere
    • to lose one's labour: operam (et oleum) perdere or frustra consumere
    • it is worth while: operae pretium est (c. Inf.)
    • to become a pupil, disciple of some one: operam dare or simply se dare alicui, se tradere in disciplinam alicuius, se conferre, se applicare ad aliquem
    • let the consuls take measures for the protection of the state: videant or dent operam consules, ne quid res publica detrimenti capiat (Catil. 1. 2. 4)
    • (ambiguous) to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omni ope atque opera or omni virium contentione eniti, ut
    • (ambiguous) designedly; intentionally: de industria, dedita opera (opp. imprudens)
    • (ambiguous) to let out public works to contract: locare opera publica
    • (ambiguous) to raise siege-works: opera facere

Latvian

Noun

opera f (4 declension)

  1. opera

Declension


Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Italian opera (per musica)

Noun

opera m (definite singular operaen, indefinite plural operaer, definite plural operaene)

  1. an opera
  2. an opera house (also operahus)

Derived terms

References


Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Italian opera (per musica)

Noun

opera m (definite singular operaen, indefinite plural operaer or operaar, definite plural operaene or operaane)

  1. an opera
  2. an opera house (also operahus)

Derived terms

References


Polish

Etymology

From Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈpɛ.ra/

Noun

opera f

  1. (music) opera (theatrical work)
  2. opera house (building)

Declension

Derived terms

  • operowy
  • operowo

Further reading

  • opera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /o.ˈpɛ.ɾa/
  • Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra
  • Rhymes: -ɛra

Verb

opera

  1. third-person singular present indicative of operar
  2. second-person singular imperative of operar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Noun

ȍpera f (Cyrillic spelling о̏пера)

  1. opera

Declension


Spanish

Verb

opera

  1. Informal second-person singular () affirmative imperative form of operar.
  2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of operar.
  3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present indicative form of operar.

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

opera c

  1. an opera; a musical theatre play
  2. an opera house; an institution or building where opera is performed

Declension

Declension of opera 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative opera operan operor operorna
Genitive operas operans operors operornas

See also


Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish ópera (opera).

Noun

óperá

  1. (music) opera
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