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Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

English aptness

From apt + -ness.

• IPA(key): /ˈæptnəs/

aptness (countable and uncountable, plural aptnesses)

1. Suitability; the quality of being apt or suitable.
   • 1962 August, G. Freeman Allen, “Traffic control on the Great Northern Line”, in Modern Railways, page 128:
     A regular supply of coking slack is sent from Durham to the Scunthorpe area, in view of its special aptness for steelmaking processes, [...].
2. Disposition of the mind; propensity.
   the aptness of men to follow example
3. Speed or readiness in learning; docility.
   An aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.
4. Proneness; tendency.
   the aptness of iron to rust

the quality of being apt or suitable

• Finnish: taipumus (fi)

• French: aptitude (fr) f

• Georgian: შესაბამისობა (šesabamisoba), შესატყვისობა (šesaṭq̇visoba)

• German: Eignung (de) f

• Irish: tráthúlacht f

• Italian: giustezza (it) f

• Latin: calliditās f, commoditās f, dexteritās f

• Portuguese: aptidão (pt) f

• Russian: приго́дность (ru) f (prigódnostʹ)

• Scottish Gaelic: freagarrachd f

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: вѐрзӣрано̄ст f
  Latin: vèrzīranōst (sh) f

• “aptness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Stepans, patness, pantses, pesants, septans

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