apertus

• IPA^(key): /aˈpertus/

apertus

1. conditional of aperti

• IPA^(key): /aˈpertus/

apertus

1. conditional of apertar

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

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

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

1. without covering, opened, 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
2. unclosed, open, not shut; free, public

   Antonym: clausus

3. (figurative)
   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. without dissimulation, open, frank, candid (of character)

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First/second-declension adjective.

• opertus

• apertum (noun)
• apertē (adverb)

• “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 (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

• apterus (“wingless”)