aptitude

English

Etymology

From Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). By surface analysis, apt +‎ -itude. Doublet of attitude.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæptɪˌtjuːd/

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Noun

aptitude (countable and uncountable, plural aptitudes)

1. Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

   Synonyms: talent, knack; see also Thesaurus:skill

   Antonym: ineptitude

   She showed an early aptitude for mathematics.

   The test measures a student’s aptitude for language learning.

2. The condition of being suitable.

   Synonyms: appropriateness, fitness, suitability

   Antonym: ineptitude

Translations

natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill

Arabic: اِسْتِعْدَاد m (istiʕdād), مَوْهِبَة f (mawhiba) Bulgarian: дарба (bg) (darba), способност (bg) (sposobnost) Catalan: aptitud (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 才能 (zh) (cáinéng), 才幹 / 才干 (zh) (cáigàn), 資質 / 资质 (zh) (zīzhì) Czech: vloha f, předpoklad (cs) m, schopnost (cs) f, talent (cs) m, nadání (cs) n, dar (cs) m Dutch: aanleg (nl) Finnish: kyky (fi) German: Begabung (de) f Hebrew: כשרון, כושר (kisharon, kosher) Irish: éirimiúlacht f Italian: attitudine (it) f Japanese: 才能 (ja) (sainō), 素質 (ja) (soshitsu) Korean: 소질(素質) (ko) (sojil), 재능(才能) (ko) (jaeneung) Norwegian: begavelse (no) m Occitan: aptitud (oc) f Polish: uzdolnienie (pl) n Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f Russian: скло́нность (ru) f (sklónnostʹ), спосо́бность (ru) f (sposóbnostʹ), одарённость (ru) f (odarjónnostʹ), предрасполо́женность (ru) f (predraspolóžennostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: sklonost (sh), sposobnost (sh), obdarenost (sh), nadarenost (sh), talent (sh) Spanish: aptitud (es) f, capacidad (es) f Swedish: begåvning (sv) c Tagalog: aptitud Tocharian B: epastyäññe Turkish: istidat (tr) Ukrainian: схильність f (sxylʹnistʹ), здібність f (zdibnistʹ)

the condition of being suitable

Czech: nadání (cs) n, vloha f, talent (cs) m, schopnost (cs) f Finnish: soveltuvuus (fi) German: Eignung (de) f Japanese: 適度 (ja) (tekido), 適性 (ja) (tekisei), 適合 (ja) (tekigō), 向き (ja) (muki) Korean: 적성(適性) (ko) (jeokseong), 적합(適合) (ko) (jeokhap) Norwegian: egnethet m Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f Russian: уме́стность (ru) f (uméstnostʹ) Serbo-Croatian: podobnost (sh), pogodnost (sh) Spanish: conveniencia (es) f Swedish: lämplighet (sv) c Turkish: işe yarama, kabiliyetli olma, yetenekli olma

Further reading

• “aptitude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “aptitude”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin aptitūdō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ap.ti.tyd/

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Noun

aptitude f (plural aptitudes)

1. aptitude

Related terms

• apte

Further reading

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