opertus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of operiō.

Participle

opertus (feminine operta, neuter opertum); first/second-declension participle

1. covered, having been covered; enveloped, having been enveloped
2. 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 [them] closed at the time of Feralia.
     (See: Lemuria (festival); Feralia.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	opertus	operta	opertum		opertī	opertae	operta
genitive	opertī	opertae	opertī		opertōrum	opertārum	opertōrum
dative	opertō	opertae	opertō		opertīs
accusative	opertum	opertam	opertum		opertōs	opertās	operta
ablative	opertō	opertā	opertō		opertīs
vocative	operte	operta	opertum		opertī	opertae	operta

Antonyms

• apertus

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • bare-headed: capite aperto (opp. operto)