ops

ops

1. plural of op
2. (informal) operations
3. (Internet, IRC) operator status

   Why don't I have ops in this channel any more?

• POS, POs, PSO, S.O.P., SOP, pos, sop

ops

1. indefinite genitive singular of op

From Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-(i)-, *h₃op-(i)- (“force, ability”), from *h₃ep- base, whence also Sanskrit अप्नस् (ápnas, “property, possession”) and possibly Ancient Greek ὄμπνη (ómpnē, “food”). Related to omnis, optimus and opus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ops/, [ɔps]

ops f (genitive opis); third declension

1. (in the singular) strength, power, assistance, power to help, property
2. (in the plural) resources, wealth

• The nominative singular *ops is not attested, the dative singular opī is uncommon and the ablative singular is once opī (in Varro's De lingua latina) according to dictionaries (see the References below).

Third-declension noun.

• ops in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ops in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ops in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1086
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to bring aid to; to rescue: auxilium, opem, salutem ferre alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to implore a person's help: alicuius opem implorare
    
  • (ambiguous) to fly to some one for refuge: confugere ad aliquem or ad opem, ad fidem alicuius
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: magnas opes habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: opibus maxime florere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: omnibus opibus circumfluere
    
  • (ambiguous) to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omni ope atque opera or omni virium contentione eniti, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
  • (ambiguous) to have great influence: opibus, gratia, auctoritate valere, florere
    
  • (ambiguous) to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 431

ops!

1. oops (acknowledging a minor mistake)

• opa

• IPA^(key): /ops/

¡ops!

1. acknowledgment of a minor mistake, oops