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apte

apte is a Latin form of aptus, meaning “fit, suitable (+dat.); fastened, joined; (apte) fittingly”. It is the adverb.

Found 114 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.54: … et nisi aureum. tum illa, ex patellis et turibulis quae evellerat, ita scite in aureis poculis inligabat, ita apte in scaphiis aureis includebat, ut ea ad illam rem nata esse diceres; ipse tamen praetor, qui sua vigilantia p …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 5.17.2: … ntamque materiam. Scripta elegis erat fluentibus et teneris et enodibus, sublimibus etiam, ut poposcit locus. Apte enim et varie nunc attollebatur, nunc residebat; excelsa depressis, exilia plenis, severis iucunda mutabat, o …

All forms of aptus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.