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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Apropriado

Pronunciation / Transliteration: a-pro-pʁi-a-do

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Appropriate/əˈproʊ.pri.ət/
adjectiveverbCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #850 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"É apropriado usar roupas formais para o casamento."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As adjective
  1. 1

    Suitable or proper in the circumstances.

    "It is appropriate to wear formal attire for the wedding."
As verb
  1. 1

    To take something for one's own use, typically without the owner's permission.

    "The artist was accused of appropriating the work of others."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin appropriatus, past participle of appropriare meaning 'to make one's own', combining ad- ('to') and proprius ('own' or 'special'). Entering Middle English in the 15th century, the term evolved from legal contexts of allocating property to general usage denoting suitability and correctness.

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