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oportet
oportet
Latin
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
- necesse est
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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “oportet”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Julius Pokorny, Indogermanisches Etymologisches Woerterbuch, radical *epi