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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From opportūnus + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
opportūnitās f (genitive opportūnitātis); third declension
- convenience, fitness
- opportunity, chance
- Synonyms: occāsiō, facultās
- advantage
44 BCE,
Cicero,
Laelius De Amicitia 6.22:
- Talis igitur inter viros amicitia tantas opportunitates habet quantas vix queo dicere.
- Therefore, among men like those just mentioned, friendship offers advantages almost beyond any power to describe.
- importance, significance
- Synonyms: gravitās, mōmentum, importantia, pondus
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Antonyms
Descendants
References
- “opportunitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opportunitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opportunitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the advantageous situation of a place: opportunitas loci (B. G. 3. 14)
- opportunitas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016