adeptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of adipīscor.

Participle

adeptus (feminine adepta, neuter adeptum); first/second-declension participle

1. having overtaken, catched up with
2. having obtained
3. having attained

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	adeptus	adepta	adeptum		adeptī	adeptae	adepta
genitive	adeptī	adeptae	adeptī		adeptōrum	adeptārum	adeptōrum
dative	adeptō	adeptae	adeptō		adeptīs
accusative	adeptum	adeptam	adeptum		adeptōs	adeptās	adepta
ablative	adeptō	adeptā	adeptō		adeptīs
vocative	adepte	adepta	adeptum		adeptī	adeptae	adepta

Descendants

• → Catalan: adepte
• → French: adepte
  • → English: adept
• → Galician: adepto
• → Italian: adetto, adepto
• → Portuguese: adepto
• → Spanish: adepto

References

• “adeptus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "adeptus", 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)
• “adeptus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.