English
adaptation
Adaptation comes from Latin adaptō ‘to fit, adjust, modify’, and goes back to apiō ‘to bind, fasten, join’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEapiō‘to bind, fasten, join’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaptō‘to fasten, fit, apply, adjust’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadaptō‘to fit, adjust, modify’
- Medieval Latinmodernadaptātiō
- Frenchc. 1600–presentadaptation
- Englishearliest quotation 1844adaptation
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEapiō‘to bind, fasten, join’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEaptō‘to fasten, fit, apply, adjust’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEadaptō‘to fit, adjust, modify’
- Medieval Latinmodernadaptātiō
- Frenchc. 1600–presentadaptation
- Englishearliest quotation 1844adaptation
Earliest quotation: 1844, Robert Sears, The Guide to Knowledge: “This is the very method adopted, in the structure…”
Formed from adapt + -ation
Latin apiō ‘to bind, fasten, join’
Latin aptō ‘to fasten, fit, apply, adjust’
Latin adaptō ‘to fit, adjust, modify’
Middle English *adapten
English adapt
Linked words
through Proto-Italic *apjō
through Latin apiō ‘to bind, fasten, join’
couple, coupling, adept, copulate, copulation, 16 more
through Latin aptō ‘to fasten, fit, apply, adjust’
Today it means
noun The process of adapting something or becoming adapted to a situation; adjustment, modification.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin apiō / adaptation