Talk:Op cit

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[edit] opus citatum/opere citatum

User David618 changed opus citatum to opere citatum, but to my knowledge opere citatum does not mean "the work cited" but rather "in the work cited". Perhaps the intro should read

Op cit (Latin, short for opus citatum, meaning "the work cited", or opere citatum, meaning "in the work cited") is the term …

Since I am not absolutely certain about the latin, I didn't want to modify the actual article myself. –Peter J. Acklam 09:45, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I changed the ethymology. Actually, opus, operis is a neuter noun of the third declension, so opus citatum is the right nominative case, meaning "the work cited" while opere citato is the correct ablative case and therefore means in the cited work or from the cited work.Lancelot Du Lac 20:31, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Is it worth noting that many modern styles omit this annotation? In philosophy, at least, it is common for subsequent (but not immediately following, so not Ibid) citations of the same work to simply be e.g. "Nagel, 55", with the fact that this means the previously-cited Nagel reference implied. --Delirium 02:06, 23 February 2006 (UTC)