"appropriate" in seven languages
Meaningappropriate
Spanish
apropiado
/apɾoˈpjado/
learned
Adecuado is just as common.
French
approprié
/apʁɔpʁije/
learned
Italian
appropriato
/approˈprjato/
learned
Portuguese
apropriado
/apɾopɾiˈadu/
learned
Romanian
potrivit
/potriˈvit/
other source · potrivi 'to fit', of uncertain (probably Slavic) origin
The neologism adecvat is used in formal registers.
Catalan
apropiat
/əpɾupiˈat/
learned
Adequat is just as common.
English
appropriate
/əˈpɹoʊpɹiət/
from Latin/French · Late Latin appropriātus
English → ItalianappropriateappropriatoCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
APPROPRIĀTUM (Late Latin)‘made one's own (from PROPRIUS 'own')’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
What is appropriate was first 'made one's own' (PROPRIUS). Spanish kept the -ATUM ending as -ado, as every Spanish participle does.
English relatives: proper, property, propriety
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In a sentence
- esNo es el momento apropiado.
- frCe n'est pas le moment approprié.
- itNon è il momento appropriato.
- ptEste não é o momento apropriado.
- roNu este momentul potrivit.
- caNo és el moment apropiat.
- enThis isn't the appropriate moment.
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