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English
Etymology
Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). By surface analysis, apt + -itude. Doublet of attitude.
Pronunciation
Noun
aptitude (countable and uncountable, plural aptitudes)
- Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
- Synonyms: talent, knack; see also Thesaurus:skill
- Antonym: ineptitude
- The condition of being suitable.
- Synonyms: appropriateness, fitness, suitability
- Antonym: ineptitude
Translations
natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
- Arabic: اِسْتِعْدَاد m (istiʕdād), مَوْهِبَة f (mawhiba)
- Bulgarian: дарба (bg) (darba), способност (bg) (sposobnost)
- Catalan: aptitud (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 才能 (zh) (cáinéng), 才幹／才干 (zh) (cáigàn), 資質／资质 (zh) (zīzhì)
- Czech: vloha f, předpoklad (cs) m, schopnost (cs) f, talent (cs) m, nadání (cs) n, dar (cs) m
- Dutch: aanleg (nl)
- Finnish: kyky (fi)
- German: Begabung (de) f
- Hebrew: כשרון, כושר (kisharon, kosher)
- Irish: éirimiúlacht f
- Italian: attitudine (it) f
- Japanese: 才能 (ja) (sainō), 素質 (ja) (soshitsu)
- Korean: 소질(素質) (ko) (sojil), 재능(才能) (ko) (jaeneung)
- Norwegian: begavelse (no) m
- Occitan: aptitud (oc) f
- Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f
- Russian: скло́нность (ru) f (sklónnostʹ), спосо́бность (ru) f (sposóbnostʹ), одарённость (ru) f (odarjónnostʹ), предрасполо́женность (ru) f (predraspolóžennostʹ)
- Serbo-Croatian: sklonost (sh), sposobnost (sh), obdarenost (sh), nadarenost (sh), talent (sh)
- Spanish: aptitud (es) f, capacidad (es) f
- Swedish: begåvning (sv) c
- Tagalog: aptitud
- Tocharian B: epastyäññe
- Ukrainian: схильність f (sxylʹnistʹ), здібність f (zdibnistʹ)
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the condition of being suitable
Further reading
- “aptitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “aptitude”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin aptitūdō.
Pronunciation
Noun
aptitude f (plural aptitudes)
- aptitude
Related terms
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