aptus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of apō (“fasten, join”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈap.tus/, [ˈäpt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈap.tus/, [ˈäpt̪us]
Participle
aptus (feminine apta, neuter aptum, comparative aptior, superlative aptissimus, adverb aptē); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | aptus | apta | aptum | aptī | aptae | apta | |
Genitive | aptī | aptae | aptī | aptōrum | aptārum | aptōrum | |
Dative | aptō | aptō | aptīs | ||||
Accusative | aptum | aptam | aptum | aptōs | aptās | apta | |
Ablative | aptō | aptā | aptō | aptīs | |||
Vocative | apte | apta | aptum | aptī | aptae | apta |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “aptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “aptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- aptus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- aptus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be closely connected with each other: conexum et aptum esse inter se
- systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)
- (ambiguous) to be very intimately related: apte (aptissime) cohaerere
- to be closely connected with each other: conexum et aptum esse inter se
- “apt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.