Translation
convenient, handy
Word origin
From Latin opportunus ('favourable, suitable'), originally a sailor's word for a wind blowing ob portum, towards the harbour. English opportune and opportunity share the root, though the Esperanto sense stayed closer to plain convenience.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- opportunus
- English cognates
- opportune, opportunity, port
Examples
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Is that hour convenient for you?
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The new house is very convenient, close to the town.
oportune .
It is convenient to have a shop next to the house.
A false friend to watch: means convenient or handy, not opportunistic - that is oportunisma. The adverb oportune carries the "it is convenient to" pattern, as in oportune .
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