aptitude

Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). Doublet of attitude.

• IPA^(key): /ˈæptɪˌtjuːd/

aptitude (countable and uncountable, plural aptitudes)

1. Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.
2. The condition of being suitable.

• talent
• knack
• appropriateness, suitability
• See also Thesaurus:skill

• aptitude in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• aptitude in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

• IPA^(key): /ap.ti.tyd/

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aptitude f (plural aptitudes)

1. aptitude