apte

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈap.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈap.te]

• Audio (Barcelona):

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• Homophone: apta (Balearic, Central)

Adjective

apte (feminine apta, masculine and feminine plural aptes)

1. apt (suitable, appropriate)

Derived terms

• aptament
• malapte

Related terms

• aptitud

Further reading

• “apte”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “apte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “apte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “apte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

apte

1. older sister
2. respectful address to an elderly woman

Declension

Declension of apte

	singular	plural
nominative	apte	apteler
genitive	apteniñ	aptelerniñ
dative	aptege	aptelerge
accusative	apteni	aptelerni
locative	aptede	aptelerde
ablative	apteden	aptelerden

References

• “apte”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin aptus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /apt/

• Audio:

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• Homophone: Apt

Adjective

apte (plural aptes)

1. apt

   non apte à la consommation humaine ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Related terms

• aptitude

Further reading

• “apte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Participle

apte

1. vocative masculine singular of aptus

Adverb

aptē (comparative aptius, superlative aptissimē)

1. aptly, suitably, fittingly

References

• “apte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apte”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apte”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be very intimately related: apte (aptissime) cohaerere
    

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• apa, apet

Verb

apte

1. simple past of ape

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈabte/ [ˈaβ̞.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -abte
• Syllabification: ap‧te

Verb

apte

1. inflection of aptar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative