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apertus
apertus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of aperiō (“I open; uncover”).
Participle
apertus m (feminine aperta, neuter apertum); first/second declension
- opened, open, free; public; having been opened
- uncovered, exposed, having been uncovered
- frank, clear, manifest
- (of a sky) cloudless
Declension
First/second declension.
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 |
Derived terms
Descendants
descendants
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References
- apertus 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
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “apertus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to speak openly, straightforwardly: plane, aperte dicere
- I am always welcome at his house: domus patet, aperta est mihi
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(ambiguous) bare-headed: capite aperto (opp. operto)
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(ambiguous) it is clear, evident: hoc in aperto est
- to speak openly, straightforwardly: plane, aperte dicere
- apertus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016