ept
See also: EPT
English
Adjective
ept (comparative more ept, superlative most ept)
- (nonstandard or humorous) Skillful and knowledgeable; adept.
- 1984, Military Intelligence - Volumes 10-12, page 62:
- These behaviors, developed in extremely bad basic and advanced training conditions were continued in better situations under more ept leadership.
- 1991, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics, Preliminary Inquiry Into Allegations Regarding Senators Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and Riegle, and Lincoln Savings and Loan:
- ...known the ways of the world in Washington, and may not have been as one of my colleagues in the legislature said, "very ept", when it came to this stuff.
- 1991, Anne Geller, M. J. Territo, Restore your life: a living plan for sober people, page 133:
- They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very "ept."
- 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 119:
- And someone who wasn't glacier ept might have thought the mouth of a glacier a great place to hide a body for a long, long time.
Etymology 2
Formed by analogy with slept.
Old Norse
Alternative forms
- eptir
- ᛆᚠᛐ (aft)
Etymology
From Proto-Norse ᛡᚠᚨᛏᛉ (ᴀfatʀ /afᵃtr/), from earlier Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”). Compare also aptr.
Adverb
ept
- after
- 800s, Rök runestone
- Æft Vāmōð standa rūnaʀ þāʀ, æn Varinn fāði, faðiʀ æft fæigjan sonu […]
- After Vámóðr these runes stand, but Varinn painted them, the father after the death-doomed son.
- 900s, Ynglingatal, verse 2
- […] þás í stein / hinn stórgeði / Dusla konr / ept dvergi hljóp. […]
- when the great-minded offspring of Dusli [= Sveigðir] ran into the rock after the dwarf.
- 800s, Rök runestone
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