opere citato

English

Etymology

From post-Classical Latin opere citātō (“in the work quoted”), ablative singular form of opus citātum (“quoted work; the work quoted”), from Classical Latin opus (“work”) + citātum, neuter singular past participial form of citō (“I summon”). Compare opus citatum, opere laudato, loco citato, locus citatus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ŏʹpĕrā sĭtäʹtō, IPA^(key): /ˈɒpɛɹeɪ sɪˈtɑːtəʊ/

Adverb

opere citato (not comparable)

1. In the work (already) cited or quoted. Used, typically in footnotes and endnotes, to cite in an abbreviated form a source that has been cited previously; frequently abbreviated as op. cit.
   • 2000, Yoël L. Arbeitman, editor, Orbis Supplementa — The Asia Minor Connexion: Studies on the Pre-Greek Languages, in Memory of Charles Carter, Peeters Publishers, →ISBN, page 14, →ISBN:

     k̂ey-², however, has both in the Baltic nouns adduced and in the Baltic pronouns added by Arbeitman (operibus citatis) both centum and satəm reflexes.

   • 2004, Subrata Kumar Mitra, Mike Enskat, and Clemens Spiess, Political Parties in South Asia, page 176, note 32 (Greenwood Publishing Group; →ISBN, 9780275968328)

     On the lack of a true forum for discussion in the PPP, see, among others, Waseem, opere citato, pp. 324–325; Anwar H. Syed, op.cit. pp. 207–214.

Related terms

• operibus citatis (“in the works cited”)

References

• “op. cit” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]
• “op. cit., adv. (and n.)” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; June 2008]