aperio

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *apwerjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, from”) (whence ab) + *h₂wer- (“to cover, shut”) +‎ *-ye-. Cognate with Sanskrit अपिवृणोति (apivṛṇoti, “to close, cover”), Oscan veru (“door”, pl.), Ancient Greek ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, raise”), Lithuanian atvérti (“to open”), Proto-Slavic *ot(ъ)verti (“to open”), and Old Armenian գեր (ger, “above, hyper-”). Related to operiō (“to cover”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈpɛ.ri.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈpɛː.ri.o] === Verb === aperiō (present infinitive aperīre, perfect active aperuī, supine apertum); fourth conjugation (literal) to uncover, make or lay bare, reveal, clear Synonym: adaperiō Antonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, operiō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, cooperiō, premō, opprimō, mergō (figurative) to make visible, discover, show, reveal, lay open (figurative) to unclose, open, break open Synonyms: adaperiō, patefaciō Antonyms: interclūdō, claudō, inclūdō, arceō, obserō, operiō (figurative) to open, set up, establish, begin to open an entrance to, render accessible (transferred sense, to mental objects) to disclose something unknown, to unveil, reveal, make known, unfold, prove, demonstrate; (in general) to explain, recount ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “aperio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aperio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “aperio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.