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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *aptos, perfect passive participle of apō (“fasten, join”).
Pronunciation
Participle
aptus (feminine apta, neuter aptum, comparative aptior, superlative aptissimus, adverb aptē); first/second-declension participle
- suitable, adapted
- Synonyms: opportūnus, commodus, habilis, idōneus, dignus, conveniēns, iūstus, lēgitimus, ūtilis, ūtēnsilis, salūber
- Antonyms: incommodus, inūtilis, ineptus, irritus, grātuītus
- ready
- apt, proper
- bound, tied, attached, joined (to)
1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 17, line 9:Apex, quod est sacerdotum īnsigne, dictus est ab eō, quod comprehendere antīquī vinculō apere dīcēbant. Unde aptus est, quī conventienter alicui iūnctus est.- The apex, which is the ensign of the Flamen, is called so because of the fact that in, the old language, tying with a rope was called apere. Whence aptus is something which is conventiently joined to something.
- dependent (on)
- Synonym: suspēnsus
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “aptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be closely connected with each other: conexum et aptum esse inter se
- systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)
- (ambiguous) to be very intimately related: apte (aptissime) cohaerere
- “apt”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.