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When does it take many to make one? This is a one-off, or I would have put it into Wordplay&Fun.
Today's Word is "opus". It takes more than one opus to make one opera.
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I saw an ad for something on MTV (Music TeleVision)--which shows popular music videos--for something called a "Hip Hopera". I was afraid to look.
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Does it take two hips to make a hop?
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two hips to make a hop?
Or either two hops to make a hopera, one.
And don't be afraid, Jackie. It don't bite only if you listen to it.
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Bill:
With all respect, you are mixing apples and bananas. Opera as a plural of opus is not the same word as opera as a form of theatrical performance in which a dramatic performance is set to music.
The first opera is the plural of opus, the Latin word for work. The second is from the Italian, according to my dictionary, though it does itself derive from opus. In the second form opera is singular. The plural is operas.
Now, let's get some walnuts and mayo and we can have a Waldorf salad.
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The plural is operas.
Not in Italian it ain't.
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The plural is operas.
Not in Italian it ain't.
Even if I am not sure to have exactly understood the last sentence ( ain't has too many meanings)
I have to add here my Italian wiseness:
the Italian plural of (one) opera is (two) opere.
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not sure to have exactly understood the last sentence
You understood just fine, emanula.
Do you have a word corresponding to the Latin opus? Maybe opo (meaning for example a musical work)? And if so, what is its plural?
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