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appropriate
English
Etymology
From Middle English appropriaten, borrowed from Latin appropriatus, past participle of approprio (“to make one's own”), from ad (“to”) + proprio (“to make one's own”), from proprius (“one's own, private”).
Pronunciation
- Adjective
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.?t/, /??p???.p?i?.?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.?t/, /??p?o?.p?i.?t/
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??p???.p?i?.e?t/
- (US) enPR: ?pr?'pri?t, IPA(key): /??p?o?.p?i.e?t/
Adjective
appropriate (comparative more appropriate, superlative most appropriate)
- Suitable or fit; proper.
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- in its strict and appropriate meaning
- 1710, Edward Stillingfleet, Several Conferences Between a Romish Priest, a Fanatick Chaplain, and a Divine of the Church of England Concerning the Idolatry of the Church of Rome
- appropriate acts of divine worship
- 1798-1801, Beilby Porteus, Lecture XI delivered in the Parish Church of St. James, Westminster
- Suitable to the social situation or to social respect or social discreetness; socially correct; socially discreet; well-mannered; proper.
- (obsolete) Set apart for a particular use or person; reserved.
Synonyms
- (suited for): apt, felicitous, fitting, suitable; see also Thesaurus:suitable
Antonyms
- (all senses): inappropriate
Derived terms
- appropriateness
Related terms
- proper
- property
Translations
Verb
appropriate (third-person singular simple present appropriates, present participle appropriating, simple past and past participle appropriated)
- (transitive, archaic) To make suitable to; to suit.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- Under the towers were a number of gloomy subterraneous apartments with vaulted roofs, the use of which imagination was left to guess, and could only appropriate to punishment and horror.
- 1802, William Paley, Natural Theology or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity
- Were we to take a portion of the skin, and contemplate its exquisite sensibility, so finely appropriated […] we should have no occasion to draw our argument, for the twentieth time, from the structure of the eye or the ear.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Julia, Routledge 2016, p. 67:
- (transitive) To take to oneself; to claim or use, especially as by an exclusive right.
- (transitive) To set apart for, or assign to, a particular person or use, especially in exclusion of all others; with to or for.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- “I call on Congress today to act immediately to appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every single school in this nation,” LaPierre said.
- 2012, The Washington Post, David Nakamura and Tom Hamburger, "Put armed police in every school, NRA urges"
- (transitive, Britain, ecclesiastical, law) To annex (for example a benefice, to a spiritual corporation, as its property).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Blackstone to this entry?)
Synonyms
- (to take to oneself): help oneself, impropriate; see also Thesaurus:take or Thesaurus:steal
- (to set apart for): allocate, earmark; see also Thesaurus:set apart
Translations
Further reading
- appropriate at OneLook Dictionary Search
- appropriate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Italian
Adjective
appropriate f pl
- feminine plural of appropriato
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germane
English
Etymology 1
Variant form of german, adapted in this sense in allusions to its use in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Alternative forms
- germain (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /d???(?)?me?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
- (US) IPA(key): /d???me?n/
- Rhymes: -e?n
Adjective
germane (comparative more germane, superlative most germane)
- Related to a topic of discussion or consideration.
- Synonyms: pertinent, relevant, apt, on-topic; see also Thesaurus:pertinent
- 1924, W. D. Ross., translator, Aristotle, Metaphysics. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001, Book 1, Part 5.
- Yet this much is germane to the present inquiry:
Related terms
Translations
Etymology 2
From germ(anium) +? -ane.
Noun
germane (plural germanes)
- (inorganic chemistry) germanium tetrahydride, GeH4
- (organic chemistry, especially in combination) Any organic derivative of this compound.
Synonyms
- germanium tetrahydride
- germanomethane
- monogermane
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Gameren
Esperanto
Pronunciation
Adverb
germane
- in the German language
- Germanly; in the manner of a German
Related terms
Italian
Adjective
germane
- feminine plural of germano
Latin
Etymology 1
germ?nus (“real, sincere”) +? -? (adverb formant)
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?er?ma?.ne?/, [??r?mä?ne?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d??er?ma.ne/, [d???r?m??n?]
Adverb
germ?n? (comparative germ?nius, superlative germ?nissim?)
- sincerely
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?er?ma?.ne/, [??r?mä?n?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /d??er?ma.ne/, [d???r?m??n?]
Adjective
germ?ne
- masculine vocative singular of germ?nus
References
- germane in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- germane in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- germane in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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