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operă
opera /ˈo.pe.rə/
noun#2074 most common
Also: a (creative) work, opus
Example sentences
Mergem la operă diseară.
We're going to the opera tonight.
Ea ascultă des muzică de operă.
She often listens to opera music.
Opera Națională din București este foarte veche.
The National Opera in Bucharest is very old.
Acest roman este considerat cea mai bună operă a scriitorului.
This novel is considered the writer's best work.
Criticii au analizat structura complexă a operei.
Critics analyzed the complex structure of the work.
Reinterpretarea postmodernă a operei shakespeariene a stârnit controverse aprinse printre specialiști.
The postmodern reinterpretation of Shakespeare's work stirred fierce controversy among specialists.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | operă | opere |
| Genitive | opere | opere |
| Accusative | operă | opere |
| Vocative | operă | opere |
Word family
operetăoperetta, light opera
a operato operate (surgically); to bring about
operatoroperator
operativoperative, prompt and efficient
Etymology
Romanian "operă" comes from Latin "opera," meaning work or effort, itself tied to "opus, operis" (a work, a labor). The word entered Romanian during the 19th-century wave of French and Italian borrowings, when Romanian modernized its vocabulary and adopted Western European art forms. It kept two senses: the musical genre performed in an opera house, and the broader, more formal sense of a significant creative work.
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