opportune

From Old French opportun, from Latin opportunus.

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opportune (comparative more opportune, superlative most opportune)

1. Suitable for some particular purpose.

   This would be an opportune spot for a picnic.

2. At a convenient or advantageous time.

   The opportune arrival of the bus cut short the boring conversation.

• (suitable): appropriate, proper; see also Thesaurus:suitable
• (convenient time): seasonable, timesome; see also Thesaurus:timely

• (antonym(s) of “suitable”): inappropriate, inopportune, improper; see also Thesaurus:unsuitable
• (antonym(s) of “convenient time”): inopportune, unseasonable, untime; see also Thesaurus:untimely

• opportunity
• opportuneness

opportune

1. definite of opportun
2. plural of opportun

opportune

1. feminine singular of opportun

opportune f pl

1. feminine plural of opportuno

opportūnē (comparative opportūnius, superlative opportūnissimē)

1. favourably; seasonably; opportunely

opportūne

1. vocative masculine singular of opportūnus

• “opportune”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “opportune”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opportune in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.