apt Copy link Outline I. Fit, suitable, adapted, appropriateII. Inclined, prone • apt: I. Fit, suitable, adapted, appropriate: aptus, ĭdōneus, appŏsĭtus: v. fit, suitable, adapted, appropriate. II. Inclined, prone: prōnus, prōpensus: v. inclined, prone. Phr.: shade is a. to be hurtful to singers, solet esse gravis cantantibus umbra, Virg.: v. to be accustomed, wont. Apt to may sometimes be expr. by a derived adjective: as, a. to get into a passion, iracundus, iracundior: a. to forget, immemor: for which see the nearest adj.
APT Copy link • APT 1. fit, idoneus ad aliquid: aptus alicui rei or ad aliquid; conveniens, congruens (unclassical, congruus), consentanens alicui rei or ad aliquid. [SYN. in ADAPTED.] Inclined to, propensus ad aliquid (easily moved to anything): proclivis ad aliquid: pronos in or ad aliquid (easily falling into anything; e.g., diseases, rage, passions, etc. Before Tac., pronus only of instinctive, passionate, and therefore pernicious, inclination): studiosus alicujus rei (fond of). Vid: “Apt to do” anything, may often be translated by solere (of things and persons), assuevisse, consuevisse (of persons), with infinitive. An apt wit, ingenium acutum: docile: excellens; praestans; eximium. 2. v. Vid, ADAPT.