Translation
opera
Word origin
From Italian opera, a work, from Latin opus, a piece of work. The full seventeenth-century phrase was opera in musica, a work in music, and Europe kept the first word and dropped the rest.
- Origin
- Italian
- Root
- opera
- English cognates
- opera, opus, operate
Examples
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We listened to an opera in the big theatre.
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The singer learned the whole opera by heart.
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I bought two tickets for Saturday's opera.
The music family it belongs to. Muziko is music, melodio the tune, kanzono the art song, kantisto the singer, and the long sung drama they all end up inside. o is the light one, o the opera house, and a the adjective.
The false friend to watch. is a surgical operation or a military one, and operacii is to operate on a patient. It looks like a derivation of and it is not: they are two separate roots that both descend from Latin opus and went their own ways centuries before Esperanto existed. Nobody is going to the for an evening out.
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