opportunus
Latin
Alternative forms
- obportūnus, ōportūnus
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔp.pɔrˈtuː.nʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [op.porˈt̪uː.nus]
Adjective
opportūnus (feminine opportūna, neuter opportūnum, comparative opportūnior, superlative opportūnissimus, adverb opportūnē); first/second-declension adjective
- suitable
- Synonym: dignus
- advantageous, useful
- favourable, opportune, convenient
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | opportūnus | opportūna | opportūnum | opportūnī | opportūnae | opportūna | |
| genitive | opportūnī | opportūnae | opportūnī | opportūnōrum | opportūnārum | opportūnōrum | |
| dative | opportūnō | opportūnae | opportūnō | opportūnīs | |||
| accusative | opportūnum | opportūnam | opportūnum | opportūnōs | opportūnās | opportūna | |
| ablative | opportūnō | opportūnā | opportūnō | opportūnīs | |||
| vocative | opportūne | opportūna | opportūnum | opportūnī | opportūnae | opportūna | |
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References
- “opportunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opportunus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "opportunus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- opportunus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be favourably situated: opportuno loco situm or positum esse
- to be favourably situated: opportuno loco situm or positum esse