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aperta

aperta is a Latin form of aperio, meaning “open, uncover”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter.

It can also be a form of apertus, “open, exposed, uncovered; clear, frank; (aperte) openly, clearly”.

Found 175 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 2.19.5: … nt ac rursus ex silva in nostros impetum facerent, neque nostri longius quam quem ad finem porrecta [ac] loca aperta pertinebant cedentes insequi auderent, interim legiones VI quae primae venerant, opere dimenso, castra munire …

Seneca the Younger, Epistulae 5.48.12: Quantum potes ergo, mi Lucili, reduc te ab istis exceptionibus et praescriptionibus philosophorum. Aperta decent et simplicia bonitatem. Etiam si multum superesset aetatis, parce dispensandum erat, ut sufficeret nec …

All forms of aperio (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.