Etymology

opus

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Today it means: A work of music or set of works with a specified rank in an ordering of a composer's complete published works. Full definition →

Latin opus ← Proto-Italic *opos ← Proto-Indo-European *h₃épos
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ep-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₃épos
  3. Proto-Italic*opos
  4. Latinopus
  5. English todayopus

Borrowed from Latin opus.

Words from the same roots

Latinopus all →

oeuvreopere citato

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.