aptus

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

  1. suitable, adapted
    Synonyms: opportūnus, commodus, habilis, idōneus, dignus, conveniēns, iūstus, lēgitimus, ūtilis, ūtēnsilis, salūber
    Antonyms: incommodus, inūtilis, ineptus, irritus, grātuītus
  2. ready
  3. apt, proper
  4. 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.
  5. dependent (on)
    Synonym: suspēnsus

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative aptus apta aptum aptī aptae apta
Genitive aptī aptae aptī aptōrum aptārum aptōrum
Dative aptō aptō aptīs
Accusative aptum aptam aptum aptōs aptās apta
Ablative aptō aptā aptō aptīs
Vocative apte apta aptum aptī aptae apta

Derived terms

Descendants
  • >? Albanian: aftë
  • Catalan: apte
  • English: apt
  • French: apte
  • Galician: apto
  • Italian: atto
  • Portuguese: apto
  • Romanian: apt
  • Spanish: apto

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.
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