apertura

See also: aperturá, apertúra, apertură, and aperturą

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apertūra. Doublet of the inherited obertura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ə.pərˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [a.peɾˈtu.ɾa]

Noun

apertura f (plural apertures)

1. Alternative form of obertura

Italian

Etymology

From Latin apertūra. The sense of "aperture" was a later learned development. Doublet of ouverture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.perˈtu.ra/
• Rhymes: -ura
• Hyphenation: a‧per‧tù‧ra

Noun

apertura f (plural aperture)

1. opening (all meanings)

   Antonym: chiusura

2. crack, slit
3. slot
4. placket
5. openness, open-mindedness, broad-mindedness
6. (optics) aperture
7. (rugby) fly-half

Derived terms

• mediano d'apertura

Further reading

• apertura in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• apertura in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• parature, rapature

Latin

Etymology 1

From aperiō (“to uncover, make or lay bare”) +‎ -tūra (“-ure”, action noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.perˈtuː.ra/, [äpɛrˈt̪uːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.perˈtu.ra/, [äperˈt̪uːrä]

Noun

apertūra f (genitive apertūrae); first declension

1. an act of opening
2. an opening, hole, aperture

Inflection

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	apertūra	apertūrae
Genitive	apertūrae	apertūrārum
Dative	apertūrae	apertūrīs
Accusative	apertūram	apertūrās
Ablative	apertūrā	apertūrīs
Vocative	apertūra	apertūrae

Descendants

apertūra

• Asturian: abertura; → apertura
• Catalan: obertura; → apertura
• Middle English:
  • English: aperture
• → French: aperture
• Galician: abertura; → apertura
• Italian: apertura
• Occitan: dobertura, obertura; → apertura
• Old French: overture
  • Middle English:
    • → English: overture
  • Middle French: overture
    • French: ouverture
      • → Bulgarian: увертюра (uvertjura)
      • → Danish: ouverture
      • → Dutch: ouverture
      • → English: ouverture
      • → German: Ouvertüre
      • → Greek: ουβερτούρα (ouvertoúra)
      • → Italian: ouverture
      • → Macedonian: уверти́ра (uvertíra)
      • → Norwegian: ouverture
      • → Persian: اوورتور (uvertur)
      • → Polish: uwertura
      • → Romanian: uvertură
      • → Russian: увертю́ра (uvertjúra)
        • → Azerbaijani: uvertüra
        • → Kazakh: увертюра (uvertüra)
        • → Kyrgyz: увертюра (uvertyura)
        • → Turkmen: uwertýura
        • → Uzbek: uvertyura
      • → Serbo-Croatian:
        • Cyrillic script: увертира
        • Latin script: uvertira
      • → Swedish: ouvertyr
      • → Turkish: uvertür
      • → Ukrainian: увертю́ра (uvertjúra)
• Portuguese: abertura
• → Russian: аперту́ра f (apertúra)
• Sardinian: abbaltura, abbeltura, abbertura
• Sicilian: apirtura
• Spanish: abertura; → apertura

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

• apertūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.perˈtuː.ra/, [äpɛrˈt̪uːrä]
• apertūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.perˈtu.ra/, [äperˈt̪uːrä]
• apertūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /a.perˈtuː.raː/, [äpɛrˈt̪uːräː]
• apertūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.perˈtu.ra/, [äperˈt̪uːrä]

Participle

apertūra

1. inflection of apertūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

apertūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of apertūrus

References

• “apertura”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apertura in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• apertura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Polish

Etymology

Borrowed from English aperture or French aperture, from Latin apertūra.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛrˈtu.ra/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ura
• Syllabification: a‧per‧tu‧ra

Noun

apertura f

1. (optics) aperture (a hole which restricts the diameter of the lightpath through one plane in an optical system)

   Synonyms: przesłona, przysłona

Declension

Declension of apertura

	singular	plural
nominative	apertura	apertury
genitive	apertury	apertur
dative	aperturze	aperturom
accusative	aperturę	apertury
instrumental	aperturą	aperturami
locative	aperturze	aperturach
vocative	aperturo	apertury

Derived terms

adjective

• aperturowy

 

Further reading

• apertura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apeɾˈtuɾa/ [a.peɾˈt̪u.ɾa]

• Audio (Venezuela):

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• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: a‧per‧tu‧ra

Etymology 1

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La apertura Ruy López
The Ruy Lopez opening

Borrowed from Latin apertūra. Doublet of the inherited abertura. Cognate with English aperture.

Noun

apertura f (plural aperturas)

1. opening (act of making something open)

   Antonym: clausura

2. (optics) aperture (something which restricts the diameter of a light path)
3. (chess) opening (the first few moves)
4. opening ceremony
5. openness, open-mindedness

Derived terms

• aperturar
• aperturismo
• aperturista
• medio de apertura
• reapertura

 

Related terms

• abertura

 

Etymology 2

Verb

apertura

1. inflection of aperturar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “apertura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28