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Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).

adept (comparative more adept or adepter, superlative most adept or adeptest)

  1. Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient
    • 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
      Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind.

well skilled

adept (plural adepts)

  1. One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
    adepts in philosophy
    • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
      When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day.
    • 1894-95, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure:
      Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:adept.

one fully skilled or well versed in anything

Borrowed from Polish adept.

adept m pers (female equivalent adeptka)

  1. apprentice, trainee; novice (person training in a given field or new in a given field)
    Synonyms: pòczãtnik, debiutant, (archaic) swiéżi
  2. follower, supporter (supporter of a doctrine or philosophical school)
    Synonym: przëstojnik

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”).

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adepter, definite plural adeptene)

  1. an adept (person)

From Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”). The adjective is of the same origin, though likely through English adept.

adept m (definite singular adepten, indefinite plural adeptar, definite plural adeptane)

  1. an adept, skillful person
  2. an inductee to an order, a secret society or a science
  3. (historical) an alchemist
  4. a very knowledgeable person
  5. (by extension, derogatory) a know-it-all, a self-declared expert
  6. a student of a craft

adept (indefinite singular **adept, definite singular and plural adepte)

  1. adept (very skilled)

Learned borrowing from Latin adeptus. Noun sense 1 and noun sense 2 are semantic loans from German Adept and French adepte.[1] First attested in the 18th century.[2]

adept m pers (female equivalent adeptka)

  1. apprentice, trainee; novice (person training in a given field or new in a given field)
    Synonyms: debiutant, początkujący
  2. adept (person with secret information)
  3. (obsolete) alchemist
    Synonym: alchemik

apprentice

adept

  1. ^ Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “adept”, in Etymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
  2. ^ Samuel Bogumił Linde (1807–1814), “adept”, in Słownik języka polskiego

Borrowed from French adepte.

adept m (plural adepți, feminine equivalent adeptă)

  1. follower
  2. disciple

Borrowed from French adepte.

adept c

  1. a pupil, a student, an apprentice, a disciple