oportet

Latin

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

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

1. (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)
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

• dēbeō
• necesse est
• opus est

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