operor Latin · revision 7250

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɔ.pɛ.rɔr]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɔː.pe.ror]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''operor''' (present infinitive operārī, perfect active operātus sum); first conjugation, deponent^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is from [[opera]] “effort” or [[opus]] “work” with the verb suffix ⟨-or⟩, or a back-formation from ⟨operātus⟩.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(TLL) An active ⟨operō⟩ is late.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(TLL)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Pliny, of being at work, and Lewis and Short note it is not in Cicero.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Köbler dates Pliny 23/24–79 AD.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ It meant to work, labour, be busy, as Livy's ''reīpūblicae operārī'' “to devote oneself to public affairs”.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) In Juvenal and others it meant to perform religious rites, worship, a sense Nonius explains.^(OLD 2012)

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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to work, labour, be occupied with, cause, produce.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Spanish and Portuguese ''obrar'' and French ''œuvrer'', and [[en|operate]] came about 1600 from its participle or as a back-formation from [[en|operation]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 59 BC–17 AD – Livy uses it of devotion to public affairs.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 23/24–79 AD – Pliny uses it of working.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 67–c. 127 AD – Juvenal uses it of worship.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 1600 – English ''operate'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Verb===

+ # To work, be busy, be occupied with.^(OLD 2012)

+ # To perform religious rites, [[m|en|worship]].^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Ecclesiastical Latin)'' To cause, produce.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[inoperor]]

+ * [[operāns]]

+ * [[operārius]]

+ * [[operātiō]]

+ * [[operātus]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[opera]]

+ * [[opus]]

+ * [[en|operate]]

+ * [[en|operation]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}