œuvre
French
noun
Definitions
- work, book, piece
- activity, operation
- The complete body of an artist's work, or their works in a particular category.
Etymology
Inherited from Old French uevre inherited from Latin opera (work, labor, id).
Origin
Latin
opera
Gloss
work, labor, id
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
働
Emoji
✂️ 🏗️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- enure English
- hors d'oeuvre English
- inure English
- oeuvre English
- operameter English
- ure English
- opera Latin
- operarius Latin
- Œuvre German
- opera Italian
- d' French
- hors French
- hors-d'œuvre French
- œuvrette French
- obra Spanish, Castilian
- *h₃ep- Proto-Indo-European
- uevre Old French
- obra Catalan, Valencian
- opar Old Irish
- vepër Albanian
- obra Old Portuguese
- òbra Occitan
- ouvra Romansh
- ovra Romansh
- opare Friulian
- huebra Old Spanish
- euvre Bourguignon