apertus
Esperanto edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
apertus
- conditional of aperti
Ido edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
apertus
- conditional of apertar
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of aperiō (“to uncover, make or lay bare; to unclose, open”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈper.tus/, [äˈpɛrt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈper.tus/, [äˈpɛrt̪us]
Participle edit
apertus (feminine aperta, neuter apertum, comparative apertior, superlative apertissimus, adverb apertē); first/second-declension participle
- without covering, opened, uncovered
- Antonym: tectus
- 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
- Quod [...] nec facile adire apertos ad auxiliandum animadvertebant
- (poetic, of the sky) cloudless, clear
- unclosed, open, not shut; free, public
- Antonym: clausus
- (figurative)
- open, plain, clear, manifest, evident, unobstructed; (rhetoric, of a discourse) clear, intelligible
- without dissimulation, open, frank, candid (of character)
- open, plain, clear, manifest, evident, unobstructed; (rhetoric, of a discourse) clear, intelligible
Inflection edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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 |
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Descendants edit
Descendants of apertus in other languages
References edit
- “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
- to speak openly, straightforwardly: plane, aperte dicere
- apertus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Anagrams edit
- apterus (“wingless”)