oportet
Latin
Etymology
For *opvortet, from vertō (“to turn”). Some refer the op- to ob-, some to opus, with which compare the similar expressions opus est and operam dare.
See also ligō, vinciō for other examples of words meaning to bind or turn, having derivatives with the sense of obliging.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /oˈpor.tet/, [ɔˈpɔr.tɛt]
Verb
oportet (present infinitive oportēre, perfect active oportuit); second conjugation, impersonal, no passive
- (with accusative) it is necessary, proper, becoming; it behooves.
- oportet nos patriam amare — it behooves us to love our country.
- non te oportebat illi argentum reddere — you ought not to have paid him the money.
Inflection
| Conjugation of oportet (second conjugation, impersonal, active only) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | oportet | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | oportēbat | — | — | — | |
| future | — | — | oportēbit | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | oportuit | — | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | oportuerat | — | — | — | |
| future perfect | — | — | oportuerit | — | — | — | |
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | oporteat | — | — | — |
| imperfect | — | — | oportēret | — | — | — | |
| perfect | — | — | oportuerit | — | — | — | |
| pluperfect | — | — | oportuisset | — | — | — | |
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| future | — | — | oportētō | — | — | — | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | oportēre | oportuisse | — | — | — | — | |
| participles | oportēns | — | — | — | — | — | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| nominative | genitive | dative/ablative | accusative | accusative | ablative | ||
| oportēre | oportendī | oportendō | oportendum | — | — | ||
Synonyms
- dēbeō
- necesse est
- opus est
Descendants
- Ido: oportar
References
- oportet in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- oportet in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- oportet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch, radical *epi