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opere

opere is a Latin form of opus, meaning “work, task; (opus est) there is need of”. It is the ablative singular neuter noun.

Found 615 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.8.2: Eo opere perfecto praesidia disponit, castella communit, quo facilius, si se invito transire conentur, prohibere possit.

Plautus, Asinaria 5.2.873: ille operé foris faciendo lassus noctu ad me advenit;

Plautus, Bacchides 5.2.1171: ut istúc delictum désistas tanto ópere ire oppugnátum.

All forms of opus (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.