overt

English
WOTD – 25 May 2019

Etymology

From Middle English overt, uverte (“open, uncovered; unfastened; accessible, unobstructed; clear, manifest”), from Anglo-Norman overt, Middle French ouvert, Old French overt, ouvert, uvert (“opened”) (modern French ouvert), past participle of Anglo-Norman, Old French ovrir, ouvrir, uvrir (“to open”),[1] from Late Latin operire, variant of Latin aperīre (“to open”),[2] from aperiō (“to open, uncover”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“away; from”) + *h₂wer- (“to cover, shut”). The English word is a doublet of ouvert.

Pronunciation

Adjective

overt (not comparable)

  1. Open and not concealed or secret.
    Synonyms: manifest, open, patent, plain, unconcealed
    Antonyms: covert, hidden, nonovert; see also Thesaurus:covert

Derived terms

Translations

References
  1. “overt, adj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 January 2019.
  2. “overt, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2004; “overt” (US) / “overt” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *opertus, from Latin apertus.

Verb

overt

  1. past participle of ovrir

Descendants
descendants
  • English: overt
  • Middle French: ouvert
    • French: ouvert
      • Antillean Creole: ouvè
      • English: ouvert
      • Haitian Creole: ouvè
      • Louisiana Creole French: ouvèr
      • Seychellois Creole: ouver
  • Norman: ouvaert (Guernsey), ouvèrt (Jersey)
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