opera

opera

synonyms, antonyms, definitions, examples & translations of opera in English

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English

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒp.ə.ɹə/, /ˈɒp.ɹə/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɑ.pɚ.ə/, /ˈɑ.pɹə/
  • (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɔp.ə.ɹə/, /ˈɔp.ɹə/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian opera. Doublet of oeuvre, opus, and ure.

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. (music) The genre of such works, the art of composing operas.
  4. A building designed for the performance of such works; an opera house.
  5. A company dedicated to performing such works.
  6. (by extension) Any showy, melodramatic or unrealistic production resembling an opera.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations

See also

  • aria
  • ballet
  • masque
  • melodrama
  • musical comedy
  • oratorio
  • recitative
  • singspiel
  • Appendix:Glossary of opera

Etymology 2

From Latin opera, plural of opus.

Noun

opera

  1. plural of opus; a collection of work.

Anagrams

  • pareo

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Noun

opera (definite accusative operanı, plural operalar)

  1. opera

Declension

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /opeɾa/ [o.pe.ɾa]
  • Rhymes: -eɾa
  • Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish ópera, from Italian opera.

Noun

opera inan

  1. opera (theatrical work, score)
  2. opera (score)
  3. opera (building)
Declension

Etymology 2

Verb

opera

  1. Short form of operatu (“to operate”).

Further reading

  • “opera”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
  • “opera”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Catalan

Verb

opera

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

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈopɛra]

Noun

opera f

  1. opera

Declension

Related terms

Further reading

  • “opera”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “opera”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • opera in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

  1. opera

Derived terms

  • operacomponist
  • rockopera
  • operazanger
  • operazangeres

Related terms

  • oeuvre
  • operette
  • opus

Esperanto

Etymology

From opero (“opera”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [oˈpera]
  • Rhymes: -era
  • Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈopɛrɒ]
  • Hyphenation: ope‧ra
  • Rhymes: -rɒ

Noun

opera (plural operák)

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

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

  • opera in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔ.pe.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɔpera
  • Hyphenation: ò‧pe‧ra

Etymology 1

From Latin opera.

Alternative forms

  • opra, ovra (archaic)

Noun

opera f (plural opere)

  1. work
    Synonym: lavoro
  2. means, help, services
    Synonyms: mezzo, aiuto, servigi
  3. (music) opus
  4. (music) opera
    Synonym: melodramma
  5. institution, institute, society
    Synonyms: istituzione, istituto
Derived terms
Related terms
  • manodopera
  • operaio
  • operare
  • operetta
  • operista
  • operoso

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

opera

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

Anagrams

  • pareo

Ladin

Noun

opera f (plural operes)

  1. work

Latin

Etymology

From opus, operis n (“work”), via reinterpretation of its nominative plural form as a feminine singular noun.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈo.pe.ra/, [ˈɔpɛrä]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈo.pe.ra/, [ˈɔːperä]

Noun

opera f (genitive operae); first declension

  1. work, exertion, effort
    Synonyms: cōnātus, opus, studium, labor, cūra, mōlīmen, intēnsiō, mōlēs, pulvis
    operae non est (+ infinitive) ― there is no need to, there is no time to
  2. service
    • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad familiārēs 13.9.3:
      […] Cn. Pūpium, quī est in operīs eius societātis […]
      […] Gnaeus Pupius, who is in the service of that association […]
  3. (especially with dō) care, attention bestowed on something (or someone, especially a teacher)
    1. with dative
    2. (uncommon) with ad + accusative
    3. with ut/nē + subjunctive
    4. with the subjunctive alone
      • 62 BCE – 43 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad familiārēs 10.21.6:
        Ut exercitum locīs habeam opportūnīs, prōvinciam tuear, etiam sī ille exercitus descīerit, omniaque integra servem dabō operam, quoad exercitūs hōc summittātis parīque fēlīcitāte rem pūblicam hīc vindicētis.
        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, until you send armies to my support and defend the commonwealth with just as much success.
    5. (Old Latin, rare) with the infinitive
  4. (in the ablative and with possesive pronouns) one's fault, agency, doing
  5. (Old Latin) (in the ablative, with experior) one's own experience
  6. (Old Latin) (with ūnā or eādem) manner, way
  7. spare time for something (see #Usage notes)
    • c. 60 BCE – 54 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Quīntum frātrem 3.4.4:
      Dē versibus quōs tibi ā mē scrībī vīs, dēest mihi quidem opera sed abest etiam ἐνθουσιασμός, quī nōn modo tempus sed etiam animum vacuum ab omnī cūrā dēsīderat.
      Regarding the verses which you want composed by me to you, 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.
  8. a day's labour
  9. (metonymically) day labourer, farmhand
    • BCE 30, Horace, Satires 2.7.117–118:
      […] Ōcius hinc tē
      nī rapis, accēdēs opera agrō nōna Sabīnō.
      […] If you don't make off
      from here faster, you'll become the ninth farmhand on the Sabine field.
    1. (by extension) any kind of worker
    2. (derogatory, politics) hired aider, tool, rowdy
  10. deed, activity, effort
  11. handiwork

Usage notes

The word, in its “spare time” meaning, is frequently used in the ante-classic period, and especially by Plautus, in the locution operae esse, meaning 'to be worth the time'. Later on, it is characteristic of Livy's style and of the archaising tendencies of Silver Latin.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

  • opella
  • operor
  • operae prētium

Descendants

Noun

opera

  1. nominative/accusative plural of opus

References

Further reading

  • "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 Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • opera 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)

Latvian

Noun

opera f (4 declension)

  1. opera

Declension

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈôːpɛrɐ]

Noun

ópera f (plural óperos) stress pattern 1

  1. opera

Declension

Maltese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɔː.pɛ.ra/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Italian operare.

Verb

opera (imperfect jopera, past participle operat, verbal noun operar)

  1. to operate
Conjugation
Related terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Italian opera.

Noun

opera f (plural operi)

  1. opera
    Alternative form: opra
Related terms

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

  • operahus
  • operasanger, operasangerinne
  • såpeopera

References

  • “opera” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

  • operahus
  • såpeopera

References

  • “opera” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Verb

opera

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

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔˈpɛ.ra/
  • Rhymes: -ɛra
  • Syllabification: o‧pe‧ra

Noun

opera f

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

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

  • opera in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • opera in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: o‧pe‧ra
  • Rhymes: -ɛɾɐ

Verb

opera

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French opérer, from Latin operare.

Verb

a opera (third-person singular present operează, past participle operat) 1st conj.

  1. to operate

Conjugation

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ôpera/

Noun

ȍpera f (Cyrillic spelling о̏пера)

  1. opera

Declension

Spanish

Verb

opera

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

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

opera (n class, plural opera)

  1. opera

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

opera c

  1. (music) opera (genre)
  2. (music) an opera
  3. an opera house, an opera (building where opera is performed)
  4. an opera (opera institution)

Declension

Related terms

  • operaföreställning
  • operahus
  • operett

See also

  • libretto
  • musikal

References

  • opera in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • opera in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • opera in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagalog

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish operar (“to operate”). Doublet of ubra.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ʔopeˈɾa/ [ʔo.pɛˈɾa]
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Syllabification: o‧pe‧ra

Noun

operá (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜒᜇ)

  1. (medicine) act of operating (in surgery)
Derived terms
Related terms
  • operado/operada

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish ópera (“opera”), from Italian opera, from Latin opera (“work, labor”). Doublet of obra.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈʔopeɾa/ [ˌʔoː.pɛˈɾa]
  • Rhymes: -opeɾa
  • Syllabification: o‧pe‧ra

Noun

óperá (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉᜒᜇ)

  1. (music) opera
Related terms
  • operasyon
  • opereta

Further reading

  • “opera”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish اوپه‌را, اوپارا, اوپرا, اوپره (opera), from Italian opera, from Latin opera.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ.pe.ɾa/

Noun

opera (definite accusative operayı, plural operalar)

  1. (music) opera
  2. opera house

Declension

Welsh

Etymology

From English opera.

Noun

opera f (plural operâu)

  1. opera

Related terms

  • operatig (“operatic”)

Mutation

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “opera”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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