aptus

== Latin == === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *aptos, which has been connected to the root Proto-Indo-European *h₂ep- (“to join, fit (in)”) or to the perfect passive participle of apiō (“fasten, join”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈap.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈap.tus] === Participle === aptus (feminine apta, neuter aptum, comparative aptior, superlative aptissimus, adverb aptē); first/second-declension participle suitable, adapted Synonyms: opportūnus, commodus, habilis, idōneus, dignus, conveniēns, iūstus, lēgitimus, ūtilis, ūtēnsilis, salūber Antonyms: incommodus, inūtilis, ineptus, irritus, grātuītus ready apt, proper bound, tied, attached, joined (to) dependent (on) Synonym: suspēnsus ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ineptus ==== Descendants ==== === References === === Further reading === “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, 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. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “apt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.