opusn.

Brit.

/ˈəʊpəs/,

/ˈɒpəs/, U.S.

/ˈoʊpəs/

Inflections: Plural opera, opuses.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin opus.

Etymology: < classical Latin opus work, (also) an artistic or literary work (plural opera ) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit apas work. Compare French opus musical composition (1832). Compare op. n.¹, opera n.²Classical Latin opus was used from the late 15th and early 16th cent., especially in Italy, to denote a musical composition; the term was applied in Germany (from the mid 16th cent.) to whole collections. It came to be used systematically from the early 17th cent., particularly in Venice, for numbered sets of pieces by a composer in the chronological order of publication. At first restricted to instrumental music, this practice was later (from c1800) used also for vocal works.

a. A book or other written work, esp. one considered to be of great size or importance; a collection of writings by a particular author.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > regarded as the result of labour

travailc1350

watch-birth1606

opera1785

opus1808

oeuvre1889

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 162 I shall do it volume by volume in my great ‘Opus’.

1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 404 I have found out another opus for you when you have completed the ‘West Indies’.

1955 V. Nabokov Let. 15 July in Sel. Lett. (1989) 174 I envisage this publication as a strictly scientific opus.

1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp's Rock xii. 181 Everyone thinks he has it in him to produce a literary opus destined to make posterity cream her drawers in an endless series of multiple orgasms.

1989 Yankee Sept. 83/1 Battell's three-volume, 1,800-page opus was a defense of his theory that all natural forces..were made of particles.

1991 San Francisco Rev. Bks. Fall 13/1 Sade..is responsible for a massive opus of novels, plays, stories and poems.

b. Music. A musical composition or set of compositions, esp. as numbered in a catalogue of a composer's works.Cf. earlier opera n.²

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun]

workOE

musica1586

composure?1606

composition1667

writings1672

morceau1748

op.1784

piece1825

opusc1840

confection1844

number1865

oeuvre1889

1783 J. C. Bach (title) Three sonatas for harpsichord..Op. XX.]

c1840 R. L. Pearsall (title) The River Spirit's song, a madrigal for four voices..(Opus 20.) 1836.

1869 Schirmer's Catal. Circulating Mus. Lib. 56/1 Paganini, N...Opus 11. Moto Perpetuo. (Mouvement Perpétuelle.)

1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 532/2 No rule is observed as regards the size of an opus: for instance, Beethoven's op. 1 consists of three pianoforte trios, while Schubert's op. 1 is only the song ‘Erlkönig’.

1900 J. Huneker Chopin (1921) I. iv. 102 The C minor Polonaise of this opus was never, is not now, a favorite.

1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress ix. 110 The same feeling which a composer with an oversensitive ear would suffer on hearing his pet opus assassinated by a schoolgirl.

1970 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 12/3 Beethoven's Trio in B flat, Opus 11..was given a rather pawky performance.

1993 New Republic 15 Mar. 33/1 The essential structure, the essential ‘workhood’, of a formalistic opus such as, say, Boulez's Structures.

2. A work or production in any of the arts; a production or performance more generally.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art

thingOE

virtuosity1848

oeuvre1889

opus1895

period piece1909

1895 B. Carman Behind Arras 76 What is good? While God's unfinished opus Multitudinous harmony obeys, Evil is a dissonance.

1957 J. D. Salinger Zooey in New Yorker 33 93/1 The most courageous goddam offbeat television opus you ever read.

1959 P. Bull I know Face ix, 147 ‘B’ films and other ghastly opuses.

1967 Telegraph (Brisbane) 30 June 12 Nine young couples are determined to go ahead with New York's latest open air opus—a ‘wed-in’.

1987 Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 13/6 Simon Gray's first TV play for five years was one of those opuses which can't make up its mind which genre it wants to belong to.

Compounds

opus number n. the number attached to a musical composition to indicate its place in a catalogue of a composer's works.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] > opus number

opus number1860

1860 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 368/2 The works of Beethoven which have Opus numbers..amount to 137.

1990 Classic CD July 78/2 The Gambler was Prokofiev's sixth opera, despite its early opus number.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

opusv.

Brit.

/ˈəʊpəs/,

/ˈɒpəs/, U.S.

/ˈoʊpəs/

Inflections: Present participle opusing; past tense and past participle opused, (irregular) opussed;

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: opus n.

Etymology: < opus n.

Music.

transitive. To assign an opus number to; to include and number among the works of a composer.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > [verb (transitive)] > number works

opus1900

op1921

1900 W. A. Ellis Life Wagner I. 376 This negligence in ‘opus-ing’ his musical works.

1921 A. B. Smith in Music & Lett. 2 364 A large class of composers..write pieces solely for the pleasure of opusing them.

1949 Audio Engin. June 24/3 Dvorak..carefully opussed (?) his earlier works.

2000 Polish Music Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 3 Only one dated manuscript of the Polonaise in F Minor is known of the group of polonaises: G-sharp Minor, B flat Minor, G-flat Major, and the polonaises opused by Fontana.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	opus
释义	opusn. Brit. /ˈəʊpəs/, /ˈɒpəs/, U.S. /ˈoʊpəs/ Inflections: Plural opera, opuses. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin opus. Etymology: < classical Latin opus work, (also) an artistic or literary work (plural opera ) < the same Indo-European base as Sanskrit apas work. Compare French opus musical composition (1832). Compare op. n.¹, opera n.²Classical Latin opus was used from the late 15th and early 16th cent., especially in Italy, to denote a musical composition; the term was applied in Germany (from the mid 16th cent.) to whole collections. It came to be used systematically from the early 17th cent., particularly in Venice, for numbered sets of pieces by a composer in the chronological order of publication. At first restricted to instrumental music, this practice was later (from c1800) used also for vocal works. 1. a. A book or other written work, esp. one considered to be of great size or importance; a collection of writings by a particular author. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] > regarded as the result of labour travailc1350 watch-birth1606 opera1785 opus1808 oeuvre1889 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 162 I shall do it volume by volume in my great ‘Opus’. 1808 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) II. 404 I have found out another opus for you when you have completed the ‘West Indies’. 1955 V. Nabokov Let. 15 July in Sel. Lett. (1989) 174 I envisage this publication as a strictly scientific opus. 1983 W. N. Rowe Clapp's Rock xii. 181 Everyone thinks he has it in him to produce a literary opus destined to make posterity cream her drawers in an endless series of multiple orgasms. 1989 Yankee Sept. 83/1 Battell's three-volume, 1,800-page opus was a defense of his theory that all natural forces..were made of particles. 1991 San Francisco Rev. Bks. Fall 13/1 Sade..is responsible for a massive opus of novels, plays, stories and poems. b. Music. A musical composition or set of compositions, esp. as numbered in a catalogue of a composer's works.Cf. earlier opera n.² ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] workOE musica1586 composure?1606 composition1667 writings1672 morceau1748 op.1784 piece1825 opusc1840 confection1844 number1865 oeuvre1889 1783 J. C. Bach (title) Three sonatas for harpsichord..Op. XX.] c1840 R. L. Pearsall (title) The River Spirit's song, a madrigal for four voices..(Opus 20.) 1836. 1869 Schirmer's Catal. Circulating Mus. Lib. 56/1 Paganini, N...Opus 11. Moto Perpetuo. (Mouvement Perpétuelle.) 1880 G. Grove Dict. Music II. 532/2 No rule is observed as regards the size of an opus: for instance, Beethoven's op. 1 consists of three pianoforte trios, while Schubert's op. 1 is only the song ‘Erlkönig’. 1900 J. Huneker Chopin (1921) I. iv. 102 The C minor Polonaise of this opus was never, is not now, a favorite. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress ix. 110 The same feeling which a composer with an oversensitive ear would suffer on hearing his pet opus assassinated by a schoolgirl. 1970 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 12/3 Beethoven's Trio in B flat, Opus 11..was given a rather pawky performance. 1993 New Republic 15 Mar. 33/1 The essential structure, the essential ‘workhood’, of a formalistic opus such as, say, Boulez's Structures. 2. A work or production in any of the arts; a production or performance more generally. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art thingOE virtuosity1848 oeuvre1889 opus1895 period piece1909 1895 B. Carman Behind Arras 76 What is good? While God's unfinished opus Multitudinous harmony obeys, Evil is a dissonance. 1957 J. D. Salinger Zooey in New Yorker 33 93/1 The most courageous goddam offbeat television opus you ever read. 1959 P. Bull I know Face ix, 147 ‘B’ films and other ghastly opuses. 1967 Telegraph (Brisbane) 30 June 12 Nine young couples are determined to go ahead with New York's latest open air opus—a ‘wed-in’. 1987 Daily Tel. 26 Jan. 13/6 Simon Gray's first TV play for five years was one of those opuses which can't make up its mind which genre it wants to belong to. Compounds opus number n. the number attached to a musical composition to indicate its place in a catalogue of a composer's works. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > [noun] > opus number opus number1860 1860 Atlantic Monthly Mar. 368/2 The works of Beethoven which have Opus numbers..amount to 137. 1990 Classic CD July 78/2 The Gambler was Prokofiev's sixth opera, despite its early opus number. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). opusv. Brit. /ˈəʊpəs/, /ˈɒpəs/, U.S. /ˈoʊpəs/ Inflections: Present participle opusing; past tense and past participle opused, (irregular) opussed; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: opus n. Etymology: < opus n. Music. transitive. To assign an opus number to; to include and number among the works of a composer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > study or science of music > [verb (transitive)] > number works opus1900 op1921 1900 W. A. Ellis Life Wagner I. 376 This negligence in ‘opus-ing’ his musical works. 1921 A. B. Smith in Music & Lett. 2 364 A large class of composers..write pieces solely for the pleasure of opusing them. 1949 Audio Engin. June 24/3 Dvorak..carefully opussed (?) his earlier works. 2000 Polish Music Jrnl. (Electronic ed.) 3 Only one dated manuscript of the Polonaise in F Minor is known of the group of polonaises: G-sharp Minor, B flat Minor, G-flat Major, and the polonaises opused by Fontana. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1808v.1900
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