apter

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈæptə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæptɚ/

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• Rhymes: -æptə(ɹ)

apter

1. comparative form of apt: more apt
   • c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
     Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling:

     [I]t hath been many an honest man's hap to pass for the father of children he never begot; and if your worship should provide for the child, it may make the people the apter to believe […]

   • 1844, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rappaccini's Daughter:

     Would you deign to be my instructress, I should prove an apter scholar than if taught by Signor Rappaccini himself.

• Peart, Petra, apert, parte, pater, peart, petar, petra, prate, preta, reapt, repat, retap, taper, trape, treap

apter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of aptō

Borrowed from French aptère.

apter m or n (feminine singular apteră, masculine plural apteri, feminine and neuter plural aptere)

1. apterous, wingless