Open

"Open" in Latin

apertus

(not closed)

apertus

(prepared to conduct business)

apertus

(receptive)

apertus

(public)

patens

(extended, exposed <-- possibly applies to sense now worded as "Not physically drawn together, folded or contracted". -->)

aperio

(to make something accessible)

aperio

(to make accessible to customers)

aperio

(to bring up (a topic))

aperio

(to become open)

aperiō

(to begin conducting business)

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.