aptus
LatinEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Italic *aptos, perfect passive participle of apō (“fasten, join”).
PronunciationEdit
ParticipleEdit
aptus (feminine apta, neuter aptum, comparative aptior, superlative aptissimus, adverb aptē); first/second-declension participle
- suitable, adapted
- ready
- apt, proper
- bound, tied, attached, joined (to)
- 8th century CE, Paulus Diaconus, Karl Otfried Müller, editor, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 17:
- 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.
- Apex, quod est sacerdotum īnsigne, dictus est ab eō, quod comprehendere antīquī vinculō apere dīcēbant. Unde aptus est, quī conventienter alicui iūnctus est.
- dependent (on)
- Synonym: suspēnsus
DeclensionEdit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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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 termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “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[1], 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
- to be closely connected with each other: conexum et aptum esse inter se
- apt in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911