ouverture

Borrowed from French ouverture.

ouverture (plural ouvertures)

1. (music) Uncommon form of overture.

Borrowed from French ouverture.

• IPA^(key): /uːvərˈtjʉːr(ə)/
• Rhymes: -ʉːr, -ʉːrə

ouverture c (singular definite ouverturen, plural indefinite ouverturer)

1. (music) overture

• “ouverture” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “ouverture” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from French ouverture.

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ouverture

1. (music) overture

Inherited from Old French overture, from Vulgar Latin *opertūra, from Latin apertūra. Doublet of aperture, a borrowing. Compare Catalan obertura.

• IPA^(key): /u.vɛʁ.tyʁ/

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• Rhymes: -yʁ
• Homophone: ouvertures

ouverture f (plural ouvertures)

1. opening

   Antonym: fermeture

2. (music) overture

• → Bulgarian: увертюра (uvertjura)
• → Danish: ouverture
• → Dutch: ouverture
• → English: ouverture
• → German: Ouvertüre
• → Greek: ουβερτούρα (ouvertoúra)
• → Italian: ouverture
• → Macedonian: уверти́ра (uvertíra)
• → Norwegian: ouverture
• → Persian: اوورتور (uvertur)
• → Polish: uwertura
• → Romanian: uvertură
• → Russian: увертю́ра (uvertjúra)
  • → Azerbaijani: uvertüra
  • → Kazakh: увертюра (uvertüra)
  • → Kyrgyz: увертюра (uvertyura)
  • → Turkmen: uwertýura
  • → Uzbek: uvertyura
• → Serbo-Croatian:
  • Cyrillic script: увертира
  • Latin script: uvertira
• → Swedish: ouvertyr
• → Turkish: uvertür
• → Ukrainian: увертю́ра (uvertjúra)

• “ouverture”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Borrowed from French ouverture, Old French overture, from Vulgar Latin *opertūra, from Latin apertūra. Doublet of apertura, a borrowing from Latin.

• IPA^(key): /u.verˈtyr/^[1]
• Hyphenation: ou‧ver‧tu‧re

ouverture f (invariable)

1. (music) overture

   Synonyms: introduzione, (music) preludio

   Antonym: (music) coda

From French ouverture.

ouverture m (definite singular ouverturen, indefinite plural ouverturer, definite plural ouverturene)

1. (music, also by extension) an overture

Also spelt overtyre, but this is not an officially recognised spelling.

• “ouverture” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “ouverture” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

From French ouverture.

ouverture m (definite singular ouverturen, indefinite plural ouverturar, definite plural ouverturane)

1. (music, also by extension) an overture

As for Bokmål.

• “ouverture” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.