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Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aptus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
apte (feminine apta, masculine and feminine plural aptes)
- apt (suitable, appropriate)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “apte”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies , 2007 April
- “apte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
- “apte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “apte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Crimean Tatar
Noun
apte
- older sister
- respectful address to an elderly woman
Declension
References
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin aptus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
apte (plural aptes)
- apt
- non apte à la consommation humaine ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Further reading
Latin
Participle
apte
- vocative masculine singular of aptus
Adverb
aptē (comparative aptius, superlative aptissimē)
- aptly, suitably, fittingly
References
- “apte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “apte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- apte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be very intimately related: apte (aptissime) cohaerere
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
apte
- simple past of ape
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
apte
- inflection of aptar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative