Where does “ouverture” come from?
ouverture (Norwegian Nynorsk) 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 Nynorsk): an overture
Ancestry of “ouverture”, step by step