Noun: ops
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: Third
Sample Sentences
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Turnus Rutulique [...] ad florentes opes Etruscorum [...] confugiunt (Turnus and the Rutulians resorted to the splendid power of the Etruscans) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita I.2]
Nouns inflected like ops
pēnelops,
antilops,
rhynchōps,
satraps,
scolops,
antihērōs,
chalybs,
cyclōps,
epops,
adips,
hiems,
hyems,
trabs,
ops,
stips,
Trōs,
superhērōs,
hydrōps,
Cynips,
cynōps, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὄμπνη'.
Verbs referencing "ops"
English Nouns
Oscan, Ancient Greek Nouns
ἄφενος.
Translations