opus

[Latin.]

(OH-pus)

noun, plural opera (OH-puhr-a, OP-uhr-a) or opuses
A musical or literary composition.

Etymology
From Latin opus (work)

So what do we call a minor novel or a symphony? The diminutive form of the word opus is opuscule. And a great work is a magnum opus. But let's remember, an octopus is not a collection of eight opera. -Anu

noun

1. Something that is the result of creative effort: composition, piece, production, work. See make/unmake.
2. An issue of printed material offered for sale or distribution: publication, title, volume, work. See words.

(Lat.)

‘Work’: a term used with a number to identify a work or group of works in a composer's output. Opus numbers are not always a reliable guide to chronology.

Latin for ‘work’, as intended to designate construction, or arrangement of materials in construction.

"Work". With a number, used to show the order in which the works by a given composer were written or published. Opus numbers are most often used for composers who catalogued their own works.

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Opus may refer to:

in architecture, a technique or a method or a style of connecting building elements, following the studies on Roman architecture:

• Opus incertum
• Opus testaceum (also called Opus latericium)
• Opus caementicium
• Opus reticulatum (also called Opus certum)
• Opus quadratum
• Opus vittatum
• Opus mixtum
• Opus spicatum
• Opus alexandrinum

in fine art:

• Magnum opus (or Opus magnum), the best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author, artist, or composer.

in music:

• Opus numbers, numbered pieces of music by composers which generally run in order of publication.
• Opus (band), an Austrian pop-rock group
• Opus III, an English techno group
• Opus (record label), a Slovakian record label
• Opus, an album by Mr. Sam
  • Opus Secundo, the second album from the Opus series by Mr. Sam

in publishing

• Opus (comic strip), a comic strip by Berkeley Breathed
  • Opus the Penguin, title character of the strip
• Opus (magazine), a student newspaper published at the University of Newcastle, Australia by the Newcastle University Students' Association (NUSA)
• Opus, an architectural magazine of the University of Chieti (Italy)

in computers and technology:

• OPUS card, a rechargeable contactless stored value smart card used in the public transit systems of the Canadian province of Quebec
• Opus (content management system), a web content management system
• Opus (microkernel), an object-oriented microkernel
• Opus-CBCS, a computer bulletin board system

in other uses:

• Opus, Greece, an ancient Greek city of Eastern Locris, on the coast of mainland Greece across from Euboea
• Opus Dei ("God's work"), a Roman Catholic organization founded in 1928
• Opus Group Berhad, the corporate holding company for several companies operating under the Opus brand name in several countries
• Opus College of Business, the business school within the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, Minnesota

See also

• Opus One
• Opus (play)

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - opus, arbejde

Nederlands (Dutch)
afzonderlijke compositie (muziek), kunstwerk, opus

Français (French)
n. - opus

Deutsch (German)
n. - Opus, Werk

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - (πνευματικό) έργο, δημιουργική εργασία, μουσική σύνθεση

Italiano (Italian)
opera

Português (Portuguese)
n. - opus (m), ópera (f)

Русский (Russian)
опус

Español (Spanish)
n. - opus

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - opus, (musik)verk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
作品

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 作品

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 작품, 저작

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 作, 著作, 作品

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) قطعه موسيقيه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮יצירה אמנותית, אופוס, סדרת יצירות, מספר המסמן את מקומה של היצירה בסדר היצירות של אמן‬

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