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ops

1. plural of op

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

ops

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of op

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

ops

1. indefinite genitive singular of op

• oppese (dialectal)

Compare Spanish ops, Portuguese ops, English oops.

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

ops

1. oops

• obs

From Proto-Italic *opis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-(i)-, *h₃op-(i)- (“force, ability”), from *h₃ep- (“to work, toil; ability”), whence also Hittite (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.

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

ops f (genitive opis); third declension

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

Third-declension noun, singular only.

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

• 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/.

Third-declension noun.

• “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, 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

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

ops!

1. oops (acknowledging a minor mistake)

   Synonym: opa

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

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

¡ops!

1. acknowledgment of a minor mistake, oops

• → Tagalog: ops

From Spanish ¡ops!

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

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!