apertus

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpertus/

Verb

apertus

1. conditional of aperti

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Ido

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈpertus/

Verb

apertus

1. conditional of apertar

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of aperiō (“to uncover, make or lay bare; to unclose, open”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈper.tus/, [äˈpɛrt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈper.tus/, [äˈpɛrt̪us]

Participle

apertus (feminine aperta, neuter apertum, comparative apertior, superlative apertissimus, adverb apertē); first/second-declension participle

1. perfect passive participle of aperiō
2. without covering, open, uncovered

   Antonym: tectus

   1. uncovered, exposed, militarily undefended
      • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 7.25:

        Quod [...] nec facile adire apertos ad auxiliandum animadvertebant

        Because [...] they perceived that [our soldiers] being militarily undefended could not easily go to give assistance

   2. (poetic, of the sky) cloudless, clear
3. unclosed, open, not shut; free, public

   Antonym: clausus

4. (figuratively)
   1. open, plain, clear, manifest, evident, unobstructed; (rhetoric, of a discourse) clear, intelligible
      • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 4.467:

        Nam nihil aegrius est quam res secernere apertas ab dubiis.

        nothing is, indeed, more difficult than to separate things that are evident from those that are doubtful

   2. (of character) without dissimulation, open, frank, candid

Inflection

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	apertus	aperta	apertum		apertī	apertae	aperta
Genitive	apertī	apertae	apertī		apertōrum	apertārum	apertōrum
Dative	apertō		apertō		apertīs
Accusative	apertum	apertam	apertum		apertōs	apertās	aperta
Ablative	apertō	apertā	apertō		apertīs
Vocative	aperte	aperta	apertum		apertī	apertae	aperta

Antonyms

• opertus

Derived terms

• apertum (noun)
• apertē (adverb)

Descendants

Descendants of apertus in other languages

• → Dutch: apert
• Franco-Provençal: uvèrt
• Gallo-Italic
  • Emilian: avêrt
  • Lombard: avèrt
  • Piedmontese: düvert
  • Romagnol: avért
• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Corsican: apertu, apartu

    Gallurese: abbaltu

  • Dalmatian: apiart
  • Italian: aperto
  • Neapolitan: apierto
  • Sicilian: aprutu, iaprutu
• Old French: overt
  • Middle French: ouvert
    • French: ouvert (see there for further descendants)
  • Norman: ouvaert, ouvert; ouvèrt
  • → Middle English: overt, uverte
    • English: overt
    • Scots: overt, ovart
• → Old French: apert
  • French: apert
  • → Middle English: apert, appert, apart
    • English: apert
    • Scots: apert
• Old Occitan:
  • Occitan: dobert, obert
  • Old Catalan: obert, ubert
    • Catalan: obert
• → Old Occitan: apert
• Rhaeto-Romance
  • Friulian: aviert, viert
  • Ladin: avert
  • Romansch: avert, aviert
• Sardinian: abbertu, abbeltu
• Venetian: verto, averto
• West Iberian
  • Navarro-Aragonese:
    • Aragonese: ubierto
  • Old Leonese: abierto
    • Asturian: abiertu, aprietu
    • Leonese: abiertu
    • Mirandese: abierto
  • Old Portuguese: aberto
    • Galician: aberto
    • Portuguese: aberto
  • Old Spanish: abierto
    • Spanish: abierto
      • Chavacano: abyerto
      • → Cebuano: abyerto
      • → Hiligaynon: abiérto, abyérto

References

• “aperio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to speak openly, straightforwardly: plane, aperte dicere
    
  • I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
    
  • (ambiguous) bare-headed: capite aperto (opp. operto)
    
  • (ambiguous) it is clear, evident: hoc in aperto est
    
• apertus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Anagrams

• apterus (“wingless”)