appropriate

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English appropriaten, from appropriat (“appropriated”) +‎ -en, borrowed from Latin appropriātus, perfect passive participle of appropriō (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + propriō (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”) +‎ -ō (first conjugation verb-forming suffix). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ (US) IPA(key): /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.eɪt/ ==== Verb ==== appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated) (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right. (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for. 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges" "I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation," LaPierre said. (transitive, UK, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property). (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit. ===== Synonyms ===== (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === From Middle English appropriat (“appropriated”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and Etymology 1 for more. ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation) enPR: əprō'priĭt, əprō'priət, IPA(key): /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ɪt/, /əˈpɹəʊ.pɹi.ət/ (US) enPR: əprō'priĭt, əprō'priət, IPA(key): /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ɪt/, /əˈpɹoʊ.pɹi.ət/ ==== Adjective ==== appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate) Suitable or fit; proper; felicitous. 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster in its strict and appropriate meaning Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper. (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved. Of an action or thing: morally good; positive. Of an action or thing: pleasant. ===== Synonyms ===== (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable ===== Antonyms ===== (antonym(s) of “all senses”): inappropriate unhappy ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Related terms ===== ===== Translations ===== === Further reading === “appropriate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. “appropriate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. == Italian == === Adjective === appropriate f pl feminine plural of appropriato