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operam

operam is a Latin form of opera, meaning “work, effort; service”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 660 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.25.3: Cuius adventu spe inlata militibus ac redintegrato animo, cum pro se quisque in conspectu imperatoris etiam in extremis suis rebus operam navare cuperet, paulum hostium impetus tardatus est.

Phaedrus, Fabulae 5.7.5: Operam Bathyllo solitus in scaena dare.

Plautus, Asinaria 2.2.366: defraudare, dixit sese óperam promiscam dare.

All forms of opera (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.