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One's Latin Make Possession Suitable 15c Appropriatus Past

正面 7136.appropriate
英 [ə'prəʊprɪət]美 [əˈpropriɪt]

背面
释义:
adj. 适当的;恰当的;合适的vt. 占用,拨出
例句:
1. A sense of period was evoked by complementing pictures with appropriate furniture.给照片配上一些合适的家具,唤起了一种年代感。

1. ap- "to" + propri- "one's own, particular to itself" + -ate.2. => take as one's own, make as one's own, take possession of.3. => adapted to some particular purpose, specially suitable, proper.
appropriate 合适的,占用前缀ap-同ad-. proper, 自己的,合适的。该单词含两个意思: 1. 适合自己的。2. 占为己有的。
appropriateappropriate: see properappropriate (v.)early 15c., "take possession of," from Late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare, adpropriare (c.450) "to make one's own," from Latin ad- "to" (see ad-) + propriare "take as one's own," from proprius "one's own" (see proper). Related: Appropriated; appropriating.appropriate (adj.)"specially suitable, proper," early 15c., from Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare (see appropriate (v.)). Related: Appropriately; appropriateness."

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