aptitude

English

Etymology

From Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). By surface analysis, apt +‎ -itude. Doublet of attitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæptɪˌtjuːd/

• Audio (UK):

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Noun

aptitude (countable and uncountable, plural aptitudes)

1. Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

   Synonyms: talent, knack; see also Thesaurus:skill

   Antonym: ineptitude

2. The condition of being suitable.

   Synonyms: appropriateness, fitness, suitability

   Antonym: ineptitude

Translations

natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill

• Arabic: اِسْتِعْدَاد m (istiʕdād), مَوْهِبَة f (mawhiba)
• Bulgarian: дарба (bg) (darba), способност (bg) (sposobnost)
• Catalan: aptitud (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 才能 (zh) (cáinéng), 才幹 / 才干 (zh) (cáigàn), 資質 / 资质 (zh) (zīzhì)

• Czech: vloha f, předpoklad (cs) m, schopnost (cs) f, talent (cs) m, nadání (cs) n, dar (cs) m
• Dutch: aanleg (nl)
• Finnish: kyky (fi)
• German: Begabung (de) f
• Hebrew: כשרון, כושר (kisharon, kosher)
• Irish: éirimiúlacht f
• Italian: attitudine (it) f
• Japanese: 才能 (ja) (sainō), 素質 (ja) (soshitsu)
• Korean: 소질(素質) (ko) (sojil), 재능(才能) (ko) (jaeneung)
• Norwegian: begavelse (no) m
• Occitan: aptitud (oc) f
• Polish: uzdolnienie (pl) n
• Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f
• Russian: скло́нность (ru) f (sklónnostʹ), спосо́бность (ru) f (sposóbnostʹ), одарённость (ru) f (odarjónnostʹ), предрасполо́женность (ru) f (predraspolóžennostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: sklonost (sh), sposobnost (sh), obdarenost (sh), nadarenost (sh), talent (sh)
• Spanish: aptitud (es) f, capacidad (es) f
• Swedish: begåvning (sv) c
• Tagalog: aptitud
• Tocharian B: epastyäññe
• Ukrainian: схильність f (sxylʹnistʹ), здібність f (zdibnistʹ)

the condition of being suitable

• Czech: nadání (cs) n, vloha f, talent (cs) m, schopnost (cs) f
• Finnish: soveltuvuus (fi)
• German: Eignung (de) f
• Japanese: 適度 (ja) (tekido), 適性 (ja) (tekisei), 適合 (ja) (tekigō), 向き (ja) (muki)
• Korean: 적성(適性) (ko) (jeokseong), 적합(適合) (ko) (jeokhap)
• Norwegian: egnethet m
• Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f
• Russian: уме́стность (ru) f (uméstnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: podobnost (sh), pogodnost (sh)
• Spanish: conveniencia (es) f
• Swedish: lämplighet (sv) c

Further reading

• “aptitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aptitude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin aptitūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.ti.tyd/

• Audio:

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Noun

aptitude f (plural aptitudes)

1. aptitude

Related terms

• apte

Further reading

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