apte

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin aptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈap.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈap.te]
• Homophone: apta (Balearic, Central)

Adjective

apte (feminine apta, masculine and feminine plural aptes)

1. apt (suitable, appropriate)

Related terms

• aptitud

Further reading

• “apte” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “apte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “apte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “apte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apt/

• Audio:

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Adjective

apte (plural aptes)

1. apt

Related terms

• aptitude

Further reading

• “apte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) apte

1. vocative masculine singular of aptus

Adverb

aptē (comparative aptius, superlative aptissimē)

1. aptly, suitably, fittingly

References

• “apte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• apte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be very intimately related: apte (aptissime) cohaerere
    

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Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• apa, apet

Verb

apte

1. simple past of ape

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈabte/ [ˈaβ̞.t̪e]

Verb

apte

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of aptar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of aptar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of aptar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of aptar.