apt的词源

英文词源

apt

apt: [14] Apt comes from Latin aptus ‘fit, suited’, the past participle of the verb apere ‘fasten’. Other English words from this source are adapt, adapt, adept, inept, and (with the Latin prefix com-) couple and copulation. Related words are found in Indo-European languages of the Indian subcontinent: for instance, Sanskrit āpta ‘fit’.
=> adapt, adept, attitude, couple, inept

apt (adj.)

mid-14c., "inclined, disposed;" late 14c., "suited, fitted, adapted," from Old French ate (13c., Modern French apte), or directly from Latin aptus "fit, suited," adjectival use of past participle of *apere "to attach, join, tie to," from PIE root *ap- (1) "to grasp, take, reach" (cognates: Sanskrit apnoti "he reaches," Latin apisci "to reach after, attain," Hittite epmi "I seize"). Elliptical sense of "becoming, appropriate" is from 1560s.

中文词源

apt：有…倾向的

发音释义：[æpt] adj. 适合…的；有…倾向的；易于…的

词源解析：apt←拉丁语aptus（适合…的，apere的过去分词）←拉丁语apere（系上、连接上）

衍生词：adapt（适应、使适应），aptitude（天资、自然倾向）

该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：apt 词源，apt 含义。

apt：适应，倾向

词根ap, 连接, 词源同couple. -t，过去分词。指匹配的，适应的。

apt：恰当的，适宜的；(习性等)易于…的，有…倾向的

来源于拉丁语动词apo, apere, -, apt.us(系紧,栓牢)的过去分词词干-apt-(系紧的,合适的)。

-apt-适合,适应 → apt恰当的,适宜的