뜻

1. 편리, 적응도, 편의
2. 기회, 결, 찬스
3. 이익, 이득
4. 중요성, 의의, 뜻

1. convenience, fitness
2. opportunity, chance
3. advantage
4. importance, significance

예문

• legionem ex hibernis evocat rursus undecimam; litteras autem ad Gaium Fabium mittit, ut in fines Suessionum legiones duas quas habebat adduceret, alteramque ex duabus ab Labieno arcessit. Ita, quantum hibernorum opportunitas bellique ratio postulabat, perpetuo suo labore in vicem legionibus expeditionum onus iniungebat. (CAESAR, COMMENTARIORVM DE BELLO GALLICO, OCTAVVS, VII 7:3)

  (카이사르, 갈리아 전기, 8권, 7장 7:3)

• Quemadmodum in aegris opportunitas cibi salutaris est et aqua tempestive data remedii locum obtinuit, ita, quamvis leve et vulgare beneficium est, si praesto fuit, si proximam quamque horam non perdidit, multum sibi adicit gratiamque pretiosi sed lenti et diu cogitati muneris vincit. (Seneca, De Beneficiis, Liber II 8:3)

  (세네카, 행복론, 8:3)

• at copiis universis confligere noluit Washingtonius, nisi commodum aliquid, aut loci opportunitas daretur. (Francis Glass, Washingtonii Vita, CAPUT OCTAVUM. 10:18)

  (프란키스 글라스, , 10:18)

• via ratio, opportunitas. (Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil, SERVII GRAMMATICI IN VERGILII AENEIDOS LIBRVM SEXTVM COMMENTARIVS., commline 96 84:1)

  (마우루스 세르비우스 호노라투스, , , 84:1)

• est et alia opportunitas descendendi ad inferos, id est Proserpinae sacra peragendi. (Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil, SERVII GRAMMATICI IN VERGILII AENEIDOS LIBRVM SEXTVM COMMENTARIVS., commline 149 129:2)

  (마우루스 세르비우스 호노라투스, , , 129:2)

유의어 사전

Occasio and opportunitas are the opportunities which fortune and chance offer; occasio, the opportunity to undertake something in a general sense, like καιρός; opportunitas, the opportunity to undertake something with facility and the probability of success, like εὐκαιρία; whereas potestas and copia are opportunities offered by men, and through their complaisance; potestas denotes the possibility of doing something with legal authority; copia the possibility of doing something with convenience; lastly, facultas, as the most general expression, the possibility to do something in a general sense.

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