apertura

Borrowed from Latin apertura. Doublet of the inherited obertura.

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ə.pəɾˈtu.ɾə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ə.pərˈtu.ɾə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /a.peɾˈtu.ɾa/

apertura f (plural apertures)

1. Alternative form of obertura

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

apertura f (plural aperture)

1. opening (all meanings)
2. crack, slit
3. slot
4. placket
5. openness, open-mindedness, broad-mindedness
6. (optics) aperture
7. (rugby) fly-half

• mediano d'apertura

• parature

From apertus, from aperiō (“I open”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.perˈtuː.ra/

apertūra f (genitive apertūrae); first declension

1. an opening, hole, aperture
2. an opening (action)

First declension.

apertūra

1. nominative feminine singular of apertūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of apertūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of apertūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of apertūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of apertūrus

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, 1883–1887)
• apertura in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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

• IPA^(key): /aperˈtuɾa/, [aperˈt̪uɾa]

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)

• aperturar

• abertura

• “apertura” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.