oportet
Latin
Etymology
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For *opvortet, from vertō (“to turn”). Some refer the op- to ob-, some to opus, with which compare the similar expressions opus est and operam dare.
See also ligō, vinciō for other examples of words meaning to bind or turn, having derivatives with the sense of obliging.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /oˈpor.tet/, [ɔˈpɔrt̪ɛt̪]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /oˈpor.tet/, [oˈpɔrt̪et̪]
Verb
oportet (present infinitive oportēre, perfect active oportuit); second conjugation, impersonal, no passive, no supine stem
- (with accusative) it is necessary, proper, becoming; it behooves.
- oportet nos patriam amare — it behooves us to love our country.
- non te oportebat illi argentum reddere — you ought not to have paid him the money.
Conjugation
Conjugation of oportet (second conjugation, no supine stem, impersonal, active only) | |||||||
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indicative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | — | oportet | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | oportēbat | — | — | — | |
future | — | — | oportēbit | — | — | — | |
perfect | — | — | oportuit | — | — | — | |
pluperfect | — | — | oportuerat | — | — | — | |
future perfect | — | — | oportuerit | — | — | — | |
subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | — | oporteat | — | — | — |
imperfect | — | — | oportēret | — | — | — | |
perfect | — | — | oportuerit | — | — | — | |
pluperfect | — | — | oportuisset | — | — | — | |
imperative | singular | plural | |||||
first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
active | present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
future | — | — | oportētō | — | — | — | |
non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
infinitives | oportēre | oportuisse | — | — | — | — | |
participles | oportēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
oportendī | oportendō | oportendum | oportendō | — | — |
Synonyms
Descendants
- Ido: oportar
References
- “oportet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “oportet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- oportet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch, radical *epi
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- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin verbs
- Latin second conjugation verbs
- Latin second conjugation verbs with missing supine stem
- Latin second conjugation verbs with perfect in -u-
- Latin verbs with missing supine stem
- Latin defective verbs
- Latin impersonal verbs
- Latin active-only verbs