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Apéritif is a French word, which, like its Italian counterpart, aperitivo, comes from the Latin aperire, meaning "to open."
The Kitchn 2009
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April was called Aprilis, from aperire, or to open because it is a month when buds open, he said.
Richard Wurman: The Month of Remember: From '33' By Richard Saul Wurman Richard Wurman 2010
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April was called Aprilis, from aperire, or to open because it is a month when buds open, he said.
Richard Wurman: The Month of Remember: From '33' By Richard Saul Wurman Richard Wurman 2010
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Nolunt aperire molestiam quam patiuntur, sed conqueruntur tamen de capite, corde, mammis, &c. In puteos fere maniaci prosilire, ac strangulari cupiunt, nulla orationis suavitate ad spem salutis recuperandam erigi, &c.
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Neque tamen praeceps vitam expulit, sed incisas venas, ut libitum, obligatas aperire rursum, et adloqui amicos, non per seria aut quibus gloriam constantiae peteret ...
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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-- Latin, Aprilis, probably derived from aperire, to open; because spring generally begins, and the buds open in this month.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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Ovid says well, that she was not named from _aperire_, to open, as some have thought, but from _Aphrodite_, goddess of beauty.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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Pompeius tenui iugulos aperire susurro, et qui vulturibus servabat viscera Dacis
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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(Cum quaedam arcam suam in quo Domini sanctum fuit manibus immundis temptasset aperire, etc.)
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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"Percutere cymbalum et campanam, aperire ecclesiam et sacrarium, et librum ei aperire qui prædicat" (to ring the bell, to open the church and sacristy, to open the book for the preacher).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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