词汇 | apt |
词源 | apt [ME] Originally apt meant ‘suited, appropriate’; the source is Latin aptus ‘fitted’, the past participle of apere ‘fasten’. Inept [M16th] is its opposite, the change in the vowel sound having already happened in Latin ineptus. |
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