noun
ŏpertus
Meaning
- a covering
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
tēctus, vēlātusopertus -a -um — in IVLIANVS III: Persia, ch. 16 and Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 17
ŏpertus, ūs, m. operio,
I. a covering (post-class.), App. Mag. p. 310, 15; Macr. S. 7, 9, 26.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
opertus adj.
P. of operio, hidden, concealed: res: bella, V.: cineres, H.—As subst n., a secret place: telluris operta subire, depths, V.: Bonae Deae.—A dark saying, secret: Apollinis operta: operta recludit (ebrietas), H.