Where does “ouverture” come from?
ouverture (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from French ouverture, from Old French overture, from Old French overt, from Old French ovrir, from Vulgar Latin operire, from Latin aperīre, from Latin aperiō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂epó — off, away.
ouverture (Norwegian Bokmål): an overture
Ancestry of “ouverture”, step by step