# apertura
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin apertūra. Doublet of the inherited obertura.

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

apertura f (plural apertures)
* Alternative form of obertura

## Italian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /a.perˈtu.ra/
* Rhymes: -ura
* Hyphenation: a‧per‧tù‧ra

### Noun

apertura f (plural aperture)
* opening (all meanings)
    Antonym: chiusura
* crack, slit
* slot
* placket
* openness, open-mindedness, broad-mindedness
* (optics) aperture
* (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: /a.perˈtuː.ra/, [äpɛrˈt̪uːrä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /a.perˈtu.ra/, [äperˈt̪uːrä]

#### Noun

apertūra f (genitive apertūrae); first declension
* an act of opening
* an opening, hole, aperture
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##### Inflection

First-declension noun.

##### Descendants

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

#### Participle

apertūra
* inflection of apertūrus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

#### Participle

apertūrā
* 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: /a.pɛrˈtu.ra/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ura
* Syllabification: a‧per‧tu‧ra

### Noun

apertura f
* (optics) aperture (a hole which restricts the diameter of the lightpath through one plane in an optical system)
    Synonyms: przesłona, przysłona

#### Derived terms

* aperturowy

### Further reading

* apertura in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /apeɾˈtuɾa/ [a.peɾˈt̪u.ɾa]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -uɾa
* Syllabification: a‧per‧tu‧ra

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

apertura f (plural aperturas)
* opening (act of making something open)
    Antonym: clausura
* (optics) aperture (something which restricts the diameter of a light path)
* (chess) opening (the first few moves)
* opening ceremony
* openness, open-mindedness

##### Derived terms

* aperturar
* aperturismo
* aperturista
* medio de apertura
* reapertura

##### Related terms

* abertura

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

apertura
* inflection of aperturar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### Further reading

* “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], 2024 December 10