What does the Latin word “opera” mean?

Answer 1

The word "opera" or "operate" came from the Latin word "opus", meaning "work" and also Sanskrit word "apas" with the same meaning. It is adopted into the English language in such a phrase like "magnum opus" meaning "great work". In this sense a piece of opera play or music is something that needs great work to accomplish. It is a piece of musical play which can only be produced by great talented people or musicians with great work and considered as a great and magnificent piece of work.
From the same root we get the word "to operate" means to work out like to "operate an engine" , which means to make it work, and to "operate" on a patient, which is a great work done by a specialist, or surgeon, not a person like you and I. I could hardly operate on a dead frog or chicken, let alone a living human being.

Answer 2

It is the plural of "opus", which has the meaning of work, art, workmanship, employment, deed. In the plural, it can be applied to work that has been done or made, as in "the works of Shakespeare". The anthem "O ye works of the Lord" is "Benedicite omnia opera" in Latin.

Answer 3

The Latin word is either a nominative plural of "opus"= (finished) work/trouble/pain, so it's "works", "troubles as in take..., labours"

or else it is an imperative singular of the verb "operare", to work something, to operate, then it's "work...!", or "operate....!" (The dots stand for the missing accusative object.)

Answer 4

Works. The singular is Opus.

Answer 5

op·er·a 1 (pr-, pr)
n.
1. A theatrical presentation in which a dramatic performance is set to music.
2. The score of such a work.
3. A theater designed primarily for operas.

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[Italian, work, opera, from Latin, work, service; see op- in Indo-European roots.]

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o·pe·ra 2 (pr-, pr-)
n.
A plural of opus./

Answer 6

To operate.