apropos
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[edit] English
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[edit] Etymology
French à propos (“on that subject”)
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[edit] Adjective
apropos (comparative more apropos, superlative most apropos)
- Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
- 1877, Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Chapter VI,
- Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos.
- 1877, Jules Verne, translated by Frederick Amadeus Malleson, Journey into the Interior of the Earth, Chapter VI,
- By the way; incidental.
- 1877, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
- Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "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."
- 1877, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet
[edit] Translations
of an appropriate or pertinent nature
[edit] Preposition
apropos
- Regarding or concerning.
- 2011, Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books, 33.VII:
- Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).
- 2011, Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books, 33.VII:
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regarding or concerning
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[edit] Adverb
apropos
- By the way.
- Timely; at a good time.
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by the way
timely, at a good time
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[edit] Danish
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- (nonstandard) à propos
[edit] Etymology
From French à propos.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /apropo/, [apʰʁ̥opʰo], [ɑpʰʁ̥opʰo]
[edit] Noun
apropos n. (singular definite aproposet or apropos'et, plural indefinite aproposer or apropos'er)
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Inflection of apropos
| neuter gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | apropos | aproposet apropos'et |
aproposer apropos'er |
aproposerne apropos'erne |
| genitive | apropos' | aproposets apropos'ets |
aproposers apropos'ers |
aproposernes apropos'ernes |
[edit] Preposition
apropos
- apropos (regarding or concerning)
[edit] Adverb
apropos
[edit] German
[edit] Etymology
From French à propos
[edit] Adverb
apropos
