apparatus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin apparātus. Doublet of apparat. === Pronunciation === (UK, US, General South African, Indic) IPA(key): /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/ Rhymes: -eɪtəs (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˌæp.əˈɹæt.əs/ Rhymes: -ætəs (UK, General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, Jamaica) IPA(key): /ˌæp.əˈɹɑː.təs/ Rhymes: -ɑːtəs (Indic) IPA(key): /əˈparətəs/ (Philippines) IPA(key): /ʔɐp.pɐˈɾaː.t̪ʊs/ === Noun === apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (both rare) apparatûs or apparatūs or (hypercorrect) apparati) The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished. Synonyms: dynamic, mechanism, setup A complex machine or instrument. Synonyms: device, instrument, machinery (collective) An assortment of tools and instruments. Synonyms: tools, gear, equipment A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage. Synonym: machine (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response. (gymnastics) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements. Hyponyms: parallel bars, uneven bars, vault, floor, pommel horse (rhythmic gymnastics) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself. Hyponyms: ball, clubs, hoop, ribbon, rope (video games) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.” (textual criticism) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus) ==== Usage notes ==== Sense 1 is used especially in scientific, medical and technical contexts. The word is occasionally used as an invariant plural, as in look at all of those apparatus, maintaining the Latin inflection in English on a loanword basis, which can cause ambiguity, though that is unimportant to the point being made. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== apparat ==== Translations ==== === References === == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ap.paˈraː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ap.paˈraː.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of apparō (“to prepare”). ==== Participle ==== apparātus (feminine apparāta, neuter apparātum); first/second-declension participle prepared, having been prepared supplied, furnished, having been supplied ==== Adjective ==== apparātus (feminine apparāta, neuter apparātum, comparative apparātior, superlative apparātissimus); first/second-declension adjective ready, prepared well-supplied, furnished (by extension) magnificent, sumptuous, elaborate ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. === Etymology 2 === From apparō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== apparātus m (genitive apparātūs); fourth declension (abstract): preparation, a getting ready a providing (concrete): tools, implements, instruments, engines supplies, material magnificence, splendor, pomp Synonym: magnificentia ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== === References === “appărātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “appărātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “apparātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “apparātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “appărātus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. "apparatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[8], London: Macmillan and Co. apparatus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[9], pre-publication website, 2005-2016