obertura

Catalan

Alternative forms

• apertura

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan obertura, from Vulgar Latin *opertūra (compare Occitan obertura~dobertura, French ouverture), alteration of Latin apertūra (compare Spanish abertura). By surface analysis, obert +‎ -ura. Doublet of the borrowed form apertura. The sense of "aperture" was a later learned development or borrowing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [u.βərˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [o.bərˈtu.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [o.beɾˈtu.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa

Noun

obertura f (plural obertures)

1. opening
2. (music) overture
3. (optics) aperture

Related terms

• obert
• obrir
• reobertura

 

References

• “obertura” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “obertura”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “obertura” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “obertura” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French ouverture. Doublet of abertura and apertura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /obeɾˈtuɾa/ [o.β̞eɾˈt̪u.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -uɾa
• Syllabification: o‧ber‧tu‧ra

Noun

obertura f (plural oberturas)

1. (music) opening, overture

Further reading

• “obertura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28