oppone
English
Etymology
From Latin opponere. See opponent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈpəʊn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
oppone (third-person singular simple present oppones, present participle opponing, simple past and past participle opponed)
- (obsolete) To oppose.
- 1610 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, for Walter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published 1612, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page), (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- Out of his Indies: what can you not do,
Against lords spiritual, or temporal,
That shall oppone you?
Related terms
References
- “oppone”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Italian
Verb
oppone
- third-person singular present indicative of opporre
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
oppōne
- second-person singular present active imperative of oppōnō