oportet (1338)

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oportet (1338)

[ gdw]

[ FEW: 7,374b oportere; Gdf: 5,608b opportet; GdfC: ; TL: 6,1153 oportet; DEAF:  oportet; DMF:  oportet; TLF: ; OED: ; MED: ; DMLBS: 2033b oportere ]
 
Latin

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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