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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of operiō.
Participle
opertus (feminine operta, neuter opertum); first/second-declension participle
- covered, having been covered; enveloped, having been enveloped
- shut, having been shut; closed, having been closed
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 5.485–486:
- fāna tamen veterēs illīs clausēre diēbus,
ut nunc fērālī tempore operta vidēs- The temples, however, the ancients shut on these days, as now you see closed at the time of Feralia.
(See: Lemuria (festival); Feralia.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Antonyms
References
- “opertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opertus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opertus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- bare-headed: capite aperto (opp. operto)