aptitude

English

Etymology

From Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”); see apt. Compare attitude, which is a doublet of aptitude.

Noun

aptitude (plural aptitudes)

1. Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. The condition of being suitable.

Synonyms

• talent
• knack
• appropriateness, suitability
• See also Wikisaurus:skill

Translations

natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill

• Bulgarian: дарба (bg) (darba), способност (bg) (sposobnost)
• Chinese:

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

• Dutch: aanleg (nl)
• Finnish: kyky (fi)
• German: Begabung (de) f
• Hebrew: כשרון, כושר (kisharon, kosher)
• Japanese: 才能 (ja) (さいのう, sainō), 素質 (ja) (そしつ, soshitsu), 物覚えの早さ (ものおぼえのはやさ, monooboe no hayasa), 出来の良さ (できのよさ, deki no yosa)

• Korean: 소질 (ko) (素質, sojil), 재능 (ko) (才能, jaeneung)
• Norwegian: begavelse (no) m
• Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f
• Russian: склонность (ru) f (sklónnostʹ), способность (ru) f (sposóbnostʹ), одарённость (ru) f (odarjónnostʹ), предрасположенность (ru) f (predraspolóžennostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: sklonost, sposobnost, obdarenost, nadarenost, talent
• Spanish: aptitud (es) f, capacidad (es) f

the condition of being suitable

• Finnish: soveltuvuus
• German: Eignung (de) f
• Japanese: 適合 (ja) (てきごう, tekigō), 適性 (てきせい, tekisei)
• Korean: 적성 (ko) (適性, jeokseong), 적합 (ko) (適合, jeokhap)

• Norwegian: egnethet m
• Russian: уместность (ru) f (uméstnostʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: podobnost, pogodnost

External links

• aptitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• aptitude in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911