apertura

Latin apertūra

apertura (plural aperturae)

1. The dehiscence of anthers.
   • 1929, Bulletin, Smithsonian Institution, page 314:

     The apertura is formed of a semilunar anter and of a wide triangular rimule.

2. The ostiole of certain fungi.

• 1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms

Borrowed from Latin apertūra. Doublet of the inherited obertura.

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

apertura f (plural apertures)

1. alternative form of obertura

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

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

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

• mediano d'apertura

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

• parature, rapature

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.pɛrˈtuː.ra]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.perˈt̪uː.ra]

apertūra f (genitive apertūrae); first declension

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

First-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• apertūra: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.pɛrˈtuː.ra]
• apertūra: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.perˈt̪uː.ra]
• apertūrā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.pɛrˈtuː.raː]
• apertūrā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.perˈt̪uː.ra]

apertūra

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

apertūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of apertūrus

• “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.

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

• IPA^(key): /a.pɛrˈtu.ra/

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

apertura f

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

   Synonyms: przesłona, przysłona

• apertura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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

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

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

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

apertura

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

• “apertura”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024