"Aperturar"

[Bushido19]

First of all, the word doesn't exist. It's an aberration of the Spanish language has been popularized mainly by banks ("Aperturar" una cuenta bancaria").

The action of the verb "Abrir" (To Open) is "Apertura" (Opening). There is no need to get creative and make a new verb "Aperturar" (Openingen?). I was really surprised to find that word in your dictionary, conjugated and the whole nine yards.

Moreover, the three links you have on the bottom (Look up aperturar on RAE.es, Look up aperturar on MerriamWebster.com, Look up aperturar on Dictionary.com) gives you as a result "The word "aperturar" is not in the dictionary".

[AngelicaDeAlquezar]

Thank you for the remark. We'll see what can be done about it.

[Rusty]

For the record, the only conclusion I can draw from nearly 600,000 Google hits on various finite (conjugated) and non-finite forms, the verb certainly does exist.
There is an entry for aperturar in other online dictionaries besides ours. Our conjugation tool yields the same results that other very good online conjugation sites do. (These same sites reject fictitious verbs I tried.)

Given what has been written in the excerpt below (see entry 2.) and in other places, however, its use should be avoided.
A fraction of the Google hits I cited above were complaints that the verb is un barbarismo.


apertura. 1. Sobre la diferencia entre apertura y abertura, → abertura (http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBusDPD?origen=RAE&lema=abertura), 1 (http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/SrvltGUIBusDPD?origen=RAE&lema=abertura#1).
2. A partir del sustantivo apertura (‘acción de abrir’), se ha formado el verbo http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/images/bolaspa.gifaperturar, que ha empezado a utilizarse en los últimos años como equivalente de abrir: http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/images/bolaspa.gif«Ordeno que esos contenedores sean aperturados y revisados» (DHoy [Ec.] 8.7.97); http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/images/bolaspa.gif«Ayer domingo la Cooperativa Agraria de Producción Casa Grande aperturó sus Terceros Juegos de Verano» (Comercio [Perú] 14.1.75). Es especialmente frecuente en el lenguaje bancario, donde se ha puesto de moda la expresión http://buscon.rae.es/dpdI/images/bolaspa.gifaperturar una cuenta, en lugar de abrir una cuenta. Su uso no está justificado y debe evitarse.

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