aptitude

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• /ˈæptɪˌtjuːd/ without the yod-coalescence
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• [ˈæpthɪˌthjʊu̯d] without the yod-coalescence
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• /ˈæptɪˌtjuːd/ yod-coalescence
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• [ˈæpthɪˌt͡ʃʊu̯d] yod-coalescence
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• /ˈæptɪˌtjuːd/ yod-dropping
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• [ˈæpthɪˌthʊu̯d] yod-dropping
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• CMU ARPABET: AE1 P T AH0 T UW2 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). By surface analysis, apt + -itude. Doublet of attitude.

68 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِسْتِعْدَاد (istiʕdād) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Arabic: مَوْهِبَة (mawhiba) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Bulgarian: дарба (darba) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Bulgarian: способност (sposobnost) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Catalan: aptitud — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Chinese Mandarin: 才能 (cáinéng) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Chinese Mandarin: 才幹 /才干 (cáigàn) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Chinese Mandarin: 資質 /资质 (zīzhì) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Czech: vloha — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Czech: předpoklad — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Czech: schopnost — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Czech: talent — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Czech: nadání — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Czech: dar — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Dutch: aanleg — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Finnish: kyky — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• German: Begabung — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Hebrew: כשרון, כושר — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Irish: éirimiúlacht — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Italian: attitudine — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Japanese: 才能 (sainō) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Japanese: 素質 (soshitsu) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Korean: 소질 (sojil) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Korean: 재능 (jaeneung) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Norwegian: begavelse — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Occitan: aptitud — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Polish: uzdolnienie — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Portuguese: aptidão — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Portuguese: apetência — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Russian: скло́нность (sklónnostʹ) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Russian: спосо́бность (sposóbnostʹ) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Russian: одарённость (odarjónnostʹ) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Russian: предрасполо́женность (predraspolóžennostʹ) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Serbo-Croatian: sklonost — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Serbo-Croatian: sposobnost — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Serbo-Croatian: obdarenost — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Serbo-Croatian: nadarenost — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Serbo-Croatian: talent — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Spanish: aptitud — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Spanish: capacidad — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Swedish: begåvning — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Tagalog: aptitud — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Tocharian B: epastyäññe — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Turkish: istidat — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Ukrainian: схильність (sxylʹnistʹ) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Ukrainian: здібність (zdibnistʹ) — natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill
• Czech: nadání — the condition of being suitable
• Czech: vloha — the condition of being suitable
• Czech: talent — the condition of being suitable
• Czech: schopnost — the condition of being suitable
• Finnish: soveltuvuus — the condition of being suitable
• German: Eignung — the condition of being suitable
• Japanese: 適度 (tekido) — the condition of being suitable
• Japanese: 適性 (tekisei) — the condition of being suitable
• Japanese: 適合 (tekigō) — the condition of being suitable
• Japanese: 向き (muki) — the condition of being suitable
• Korean: 적성 (jeokseong) — the condition of being suitable
• Korean: 적합 (jeokhap) — the condition of being suitable
• Norwegian: egnethet — the condition of being suitable
• Portuguese: aptidão — the condition of being suitable
• Russian: уме́стность (uméstnostʹ) — the condition of being suitable
• Serbo-Croatian: podobnost — the condition of being suitable
• Serbo-Croatian: pogodnost — the condition of being suitable
• Spanish: conveniencia — the condition of being suitable
• Swedish: lämplighet — the condition of being suitable
• Turkish: işe yarama — the condition of being suitable
• Turkish: kabiliyetli olma — the condition of being suitable
• Turkish: yetenekli olma — the condition of being suitable