opportunus
Latin
adj
Definitions
- suitable
- advantageous, useful
- favourable, opportune
Etymology
Affix from Latin ob (against, before, towards, facing) + Latin portus (port, harbour, haven, retreat, harbor, asylum, refuge, warehouse).
Origin
Latin
portus
Gloss
port, harbour, haven, retreat, harbor, asylum, refuge, warehouse
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
倉
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ob- English
- opportune English
- importunus Latin
- ob Latin
- obaeratus Latin
- occiput Latin
- offex Latin
- pauso, pausare Latin
- peropportunus Latin
- portus Latin
- Port German
- Porz German
- part Hungarian
- porto Italian
- *h₁epi Proto-Indo-European
- *pértus Proto-Indo-European
- port Polish
- port Old English
- opportun Old French
- opposer Old French
- port Old French
- port Old Irish
- portur Faroese
- porto Old Portuguese
- *portus Proto-Italic
- puertu Asturian
- puart Friulian
- port Old Occitan
- puerto Old Spanish
- port Ladin
- portu Corsican