Apparat
See also: apparat
German edit
Etymology edit
15th century, from Latin apparātus, perhaps in part through somewhat earlier Middle Low German appārāt (14th c.). See English apparatus for more.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Apparat m (strong, genitive Apparates or Apparats, plural Apparate)
- apparatus, device, machine (complex instrument)
- Synonym: Gerät
- (politics) apparat, apparatus (organisation, especially bureaucratic)
- (sciences) the entirety of an editor's critical notes to a text, (loosely also) other appended information, such as indices etc.
- (dated, except in expressions) Short for Telefonapparat (“telephone”).
Declension edit
Declension of Apparat [masculine, strong]
Derived terms edit
- (phone): am Apparat
- Apparatschik
Related terms edit
- Anmerkungsapparat, Fernsehapparat, Fotoapparat, Fußnotenapparat, Küchenapparat, Rasierapparat, textkritischer Apparat
Descendants edit
- → Romanian: aparat
- → Russian: аппара́т (apparát) (see there for further descendants)
- → Turkish: aparat
Further reading edit
- “Apparat” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Apparat” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Apparat” in Duden online
- Apparat on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de