ops

See also: OPS and ὄψ

English

Pronunciation

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Noun

ops

1. plural of op

Noun

ops (uncountable)

1. (informal) operations
   • 2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, spoken by Avery Johnson (David Scully), Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Crow's Nest:

     Arbiter and I will guard the Ops Center.

   They work in spec ops

2. (Internet, IRC) operator status

   Why don't I have ops in this channel any more?

   • 1995, Stuart H. Harris, The IRC Survival Guide, page 121:

     Perhaps I might now add one more piece of etiquette advice, for which all chanops will thank me. If you want ops on a channel, don't beg for them […]

Derived terms

• psyops
• special ops
• spec ops

Verb

ops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of op

Anagrams

• sop, SPO, -spo, PSO, POs, POS, pos, PoS, SOP, /pos, S.O.P.

Icelandic

Noun

ops

1. indefinite genitive singular of op

Italian

Alternative forms

• oppese (dialectal)

Etymology

Compare Spanish ops, Portuguese ops, English oops.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈops/
• Rhymes: -ops
• Hyphenation: óps

Interjection

ops

1. oops

Latin

Alternative forms

• obs

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *opis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-(i)-, *h₃op-(i)- (“force, ability”), from *h₃ep- (“to work, toil; ability”), whence also Hittite [script needed] (happina-, “rich”), Sanskrit अप्नस् (ápnas, “property, possession”), Avestan 𐬀𐬟𐬥𐬀𐬤𐬵𐬀𐬧𐬝 (afnaŋᵛhaṇt̰, “rich in property”), and possibly Ancient Greek ὄμπνη (ómpnē, “food, corn”). Related to omnis, optimus and opus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔps]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔps]

Proper noun

ops f (genitive opis); third declension

1. alternative letter-case form of Ops (“the goddess of earth's riches and fertility”)

Declension

Third-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	ops
genitive	opis
dative	opī
accusative	opem
ablative	ope
vocative	ops

Noun

ops f (genitive opis); third declension

1. (in the singular, nominative not in use) strength, power, power to help, property

   Synonyms: fortitūdō, efficācia, capācitās, valētūdō, vīs, vehementia

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.2:

     Turnus Rutulique [...] ad florentes opes Etruscorum [...] confugiunt

     Turnus and the Rutulians resorted to the splendid power of the Etruscans

2. (in the plural) resources, wealth, riches
3. assistance, help, aid, support

   Synonyms: adiūtus, adiumentum, auxilium, subsidium, fidēs, praesidium

Usage notes

• Only the genitive, accusative and ablative forms of the singular are in ordinary use as a common noun, also confirmed by the grammarians' statements.
• The nominative singular ops is not in use other than as the name of the goddess; the dative opī is attested only once.
• The ablative singular is usually ope, but once opī in Varro (in giving an etymology) and opīd in an inscription, doubly unusual for having an i-stem ending augmented with the o-stem ablative /d/.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ops	opēs
genitive	opis	opum
dative	opī	opibus
accusative	opem	opēs
ablative	ope	opibus
vocative	ops	opēs

Derived terms

• cōpia
• cōpis, cōps
• inopiōsus
• inops
• officīna
• officiōsus
• officium
• opifer
• opifex
• opifīcina
• opificium
• opiparus
• opitulor
• opitulus
• Ops, Opis, Opes
• opulenter
• opulentitās
• opulentus

Further reading

• “ops”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ops”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ops”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1086.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to bring aid to; to rescue: auxilium, opem, salutem ferre alicui
    
  • (ambiguous) to implore a person's help: alicuius opem implorare
    
  • (ambiguous) to fly to some one for refuge: confugere ad aliquem or ad opem, ad fidem alicuius
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: magnas opes habere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: opibus maxime florere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich; to be in a position of affluence: omnibus opibus circumfluere
    
  • (ambiguous) to strain every nerve, do one's utmost in a matter: omni ope atque opera or omni virium contentione eniti, ut
    
  • (ambiguous) to possess means, to be well off: rem or opes habere, bona possidere, in bonis esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to be very rich: opibus, divitiis, bonis, facultatibus abundare
    
  • (ambiguous) to have great influence: opibus, gratia, auctoritate valere, florere
    
  • (ambiguous) to acquire influence: opes, gratiam, potentiam consequi
    
• “ops” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Portuguese

Etymology

Natural exclamation. Compare Spanish ops, Italian ops, English oops.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈops/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈops/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈopʃ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈopʃ/

Interjection

ops!

1. oops (acknowledging a minor mistake)

   Synonym: opa

Further reading

• “ops”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026

Spanish

Etymology

Natural exclamation. Compare Portuguese ops, Italian ops, English oops.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈobs/ [ˈoβ̞s]
• Rhymes: -obs
• Syllabification: ops

Interjection

¡ops!

1. acknowledgment of a minor mistake, oops

Descendants

• → Tagalog: ops

Tagalog

Etymology

From Spanish ¡ops!.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈʔops/ [ˈʔops]
• Rhymes: -ops
• Syllabification: ops

Interjection

ops (Baybayin spelling ᜂᜉ᜔ᜐ᜔)

1. used to tell someone to refrain from doing something or continuing to do something: whoa, not so fast!; whoa, Nelly!
2. (loosely) oops!

See also

• hop