opportunitas

• oportūnitās

From opportūnus +‎ -tās.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /op.porˈtuː.ni.taːs/, [ɔpːɔrˈt̪uːnɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /op.porˈtu.ni.tas/, [opːorˈt̪uːnit̪äs]

opportūnitās f (genitive opportūnitātis); third declension

1. convenience, fitness
2. opportunity, chance

   Synonyms: occāsiō, facultās

3. advantage
   • 44 BCE, Cicero, Laelius De Amicitia 6.22:

     Talis igitur inter viros amicitia tantas opportunitates habet quantas vix queo dicere.

     Therefore, among men like those just mentioned, friendship offers advantages almost beyond any power to describe.

4. importance, significance

   Synonyms: gravitās, mōmentum, importantia, pondus

Third-declension noun.

• importūnitās

• “opportunitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “opportunitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opportunitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the advantageous situation of a place: opportunitas loci (B. G. 3. 14)
    
• opportunitas in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016