뜻

1. 문제, 노력
2. 작업, 일

1. trouble, pains, exertion
2. work, labour

예문

• sine vicissim qui dant [operam] ob illud quod dant operis utier. (T. Maccius Plautus, Truculentus, act 4, scene 2 2:51)

  (티투스 마키우스 플라우투스, , , 2:51)

• Dictis impensiore cura rerum ordinibus ad usque memoriae confinia propioris, convenerat iam referre a notioribus pedem, ut et pericula declinentur veritati saepe contigua, et examinatores contexendi operis deinde non perferamus intempestivos, strepentes ut laesos, si praeteritum sit, quod locutus est imperator in cena, vel omissum quam ob causam gregarii milites coerciti sunt apud signa, et quod non decuerat in descriptione multiplici regionum super exiguis silere castellis, quodque cunctorum nomina, qui ad urbani praetoris officium convenere, non sunt expressa, et similia plurima, praeceptis historiae dissonantia, discurrere per negotiorum celsitudines assuetae, non humilium minutias indagare causarum, quas si scitari voluerit quispiam, individua illa corpuscula volitantia per inane, ἀτόμουσ, ut nos appellamus, numerari posse sperabit. (Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum libri qui supersunt, Liber XXVI, chapter 1 1:1)

  (암미아누스 마르켈리누스, 사건 연대기, , 1장 1:1)

• ac totidem operis, quot uliginosi campi, excolitur iugerum talis agri. (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 2, chapter 4 9:3)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 2권, 4장 9:3)

• Et ut iam percenseamus, quot operis in aream perducantur ea, quae terrae credidimus, tritici modii quattuor vel quinque bubulcorum operas occupant quattuor, occatoris unam, sartoris duas primum et unam cum iterum sariuntur, runcatoris unam, messoris unam et dimidiam; (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 2, chapter 12 1:1)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 2권, 12장 1:1)

• Phaseoli modii quattuor obruuntur totidem operis, occantur una, metuntur una. (Columella, Lucius Junius Moderatus, Res Rustica, book 2, chapter 12 3:6)

  (콜루멜라, 루키우스 유니우스 모데라투스, 농업론, 2권, 12장 3:6)

유의어 사전

Mercenarii mean laborers as far as they work, not for their own interest, but for pay, in opp. to the proprietor, who hires their services; whereas operarii and operæ, as far as they undertake to perform for others, a mere mechanical work, in opp. to the principal or director, who gives out the plan. Mercenarii refer to the motive; operarii, to the art employed being of an inferior sort. (vi. 217.)

1. Opera (from περᾶν, πράσσειν,) denotes activity without intense exertion, as merely doing, or turning one’s hand to, something, in opp. to momentary inactivity; and also in opp. to thinking, speaking, advising, like ἐργασία; whereas labor denotes strenuous exertion, which is followed by fatigue, labor, in opp. to pleasure, like πόνος. Plaut. Aul. iii. 3. 7. Opera huc est conducta vestra, non oratio: comp. with Bacch. iii. 6, 11. Cic. Rep. i. 9. Otiosiorem opera quam animo. Liv. xxii. 22. Ut opera quoque impensa consilium adjuvem meum. And Liv. v. 4. Labor voluptasque dissimillima natura, societate quadam naturali inter se sunt conjuncta: comp. with Cic. Mur. 35. Plin. Ep. ix. 10. Senec. Tranq. 2. 2. Industria, gnavitas, and sedulitas, denote activity as an habitual quality, in opp. to the love of idleness; industria, of an elevated sort, the impulse to activity that animates the hero or the statesman, in opp. to ignavia, gnavitas (γενναιότης) of a useful sort, the diligence of ordinary men, and of the industrious citizen; sedulitas (sine dolore) an activity that shows itself in small matters, often even of a comic sort, the indefatigable bustling of the busy housewife, of the good-natured nurse, of any one who pays officious court to another. Colum. xii. præf. 8. Ut cum forensibus negotiis matronalis sedulitas industriæ rationem parem faceret. 3. Assiduitas and diligentia denote industry; assiduitas (from sedere) like συνέχεια, more in an extensive sense with continued and uninterrupted efforts; diligentia, (ἀλέγειν) more in an intensive sense, with careful and close application, in order to attain the end of one’s industry. 4. Studium denotes inclination and love towards the object of one’s industry, and an inward impulse. (i. 111.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein