operio

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *opwerjō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ópi (“at, near”) (whence ob) + *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-”). See also aperiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔˈpɛ.ri.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [oˈpɛː.ri.o] === Verb === operiō (present infinitive operīre, perfect active operuī, supine opertum); fourth conjugation to cover (over something); envelop to shut, close; (by extension) Synonyms: inclūdō, interclūdō, claudō, intersaepiō, arceō, obserō Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō, patefaciō (figuratively) to hide, conceal, dissemble Synonyms: vēlō, dissimulō, occultō, indūcō, obnūbō, occulō, condō, recondō, verrō, obruō, adoperiō, nūbō, tegō, abdō, abscondō, comprimō, prōtegō, cooperiō, premō, opprimō, mergō Antonyms: adaperiō, aperiō (figuratively) to overwhelm, burden (figuratively, of a sin) to atone for, cover, cause to be forgotten ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== === References === === Further reading === “operio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “operio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “operio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. operio, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011