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 45120 6976374 2009-07-13T15:01:31Z DCDuring 43828 /* Preposition */ en-prep {{was wotd|2008|September|9}} {{also|à propos|àpropos}} ==English== ===Alternative forms=== * [[à propos]] * [[àpropos]] ===Etymology=== {{etyl|fr}} {{term|à propos||by the way}} ===Pronunciation=== * {{a|UK}} {{IPA|/ˌæp.ɹəˈpəʊ/}} * {{a|US}} {{IPA|/ˌæp.ɹəˈpoʊ/}} * {{audio|en-us-apropos.ogg|Audio (US)}} * {{rhymes|əʊ}} ===Adjective=== {{en-adj}} # Of an [[appropriate]] or [[pertinent]] nature. #* '''1877''', [[w:Jules Verne|Jules Verne]], translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, ''[[w:Journey into the Interior of the Earth|Journey into the Interior of the Earth]]'', [[s:Journey_into_the_Interior_of_the_Earth/Chapter_VI|Chapter VI]], #*: Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Liepzig. Nothing could be more '''apropos'''. ====Translations==== {{trans-top|of an appropriate or pertinent nature}} * Finnish: {{t+|fi|sopiva}}, {{t-|fi|osuva}}, {{t-|fi|oleellinen}} * French: {{t+|fr|à propos}} {{trans-mid}} * Russian: {{t|ru|уместный|tr=um'éstnyj|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|подходящий|tr=podχod'áš'ij|sc=Cyrl}} {{trans-bottom}} ===Preposition=== {{en-prep}} # Regarding or concerning. #: '''''Apropos''' the return home of the body of old King Nicholas of Montenegro ('Communists allow burial of Montenegro's last king', 2 October): King Alexander of Yugoslavia was his grandson, not his son-in-law.'' ====Translations==== {{trans-top|regarding or concerning}} * Finnish: {{t-|fi|a propos}}, {{t-|fi|puheen ollen}} * French: {{t+|fr|à propos}} * Portuguese: {{t-|pt|a propósito}} * Romanian: [[apropo de]] {{trans-mid}} * Russian: {{t+|ru|кстати|tr=kstáti|sc=Cyrl}} * Spanish: {{t-|es|a propósito}} * Swedish: [[apropå]] {{trans-bottom}} ====Antonyms==== * [[malapropos]] ====Derived terms==== * [[apropos of nothing]] ===Adverb=== '''apropos''' # “By the way”. # timely, at a good time. ====Translations==== {{trans-top|by the way}} * Finnish: {{t-|fi|a propos}}, {{t+|fi|muuten}} * French: {{t+|fr|à propos}} * German: {{t+|de|apropos}} {{trans-mid}} * Russian: {{t+|ru|кстати|tr=kstáti|sc=Cyrl}} * Swedish: [[apropå]] {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|timely, at a good time}} * Finnish: {{t|fi|sopivasti}} * German: {{t+|de|apropos}} {{trans-mid}} * Russian: {{t+|ru|кстати|tr=kstáti|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|ru|вовремя|tr=vóvr'em'a|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|уместно|tr\um'éstno|sc=Cyrl}} {{trans-bottom}} {{checktrans-top}} * {{ttbc|Spanish}}: [[a propósito]] {{checktrans-bottom}} ====Quotations==== <blockquote> Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. &ldquo;No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin,&rdquo; he observed. &ldquo;Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an '''apropos''' remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine.&rdquo;<BR> &mdash;Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in ''A Study in Scarlet'' </blockquote> [[Category:English prepositions]] ---- ==German== ===Etymology=== From {{etyl|fr|de}} {{term|à propos|lang=fr}} ===Adverb=== {{infl|de|adverb}} # [[apropos#English|apropos]] [[de:apropos]] [[et:apropos]] [[fr:apropos]] [[io:apropos]] [[nl:apropos]] [[no:apropos]] [[simple:apropos]] [[te:apropos]] [[vi:apropos]]