Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 42520 6989298 2009-07-16T10:06:09Z Obretenov 223657 /* English */ ==English== ===Etymology=== Old English apperteinen, apertenen, Old French apartenir, French [[appartenir]], from Latin [[appertinere]]; ad + pertinere to reach to, belong. See [[Pertain]]. ===Pronunciation=== * [[WEAE]] {{IPA|/æp.ɚˈten/}} *: {{rhymes|eɪn}} ===Verb=== {{en-verb}} # To belong or [[pertain]], whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. ====Quotations==== <blockquote> In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth &mdash; above all, there is absolute silence. Listen as one may, there is no shadow of a sound in all that mighty wilderness; nothing but silence &mdash; complete and heart-subduing silence. <BR> &mdash;Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in ''A Study in Scarlet'' ====Translations==== * Bulgarian: [[принадлежа]], отнасям се към [[et:appertain]] [[fr:appertain]] [[io:appertain]] [[te:appertain]] [[vi:appertain]]