oportet (1338)

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oportet (1338)

[ gdw]

  FEW:  oportere 7,374b Gdf:  opportet 5,608b GdfC: TL: oportet 6,1153 DEAF:  oportet  DMF:  oportet  TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:  oportere 2033b
 
ls(loanword: Latin )
le

GDF, TL and DMF all indicate an entirely different use of the Latin verbal form, i.e. substantivized and as a personification. The phrase in YBB is clearly a Latinism used in an Anglo-Norman context.

v.n.

non oportet
1lawthere is no need
( 1338 )  Curia: 'Par foy, il vous covient dire.' Stouford: 'Non oportet, qe (=because) le liver serra fait al vieu des jurrours'  11-12 Ed III 597
This is an AND2 Phase 4 (N-O/U-P-Q) entry. © 2013-17 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. All rights reserved. Funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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