Etymology

adept

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Today it means: Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient. Full definition →

French adepte ← Latin adeptu ← Proto-Italic *apjō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₂éd
  2. Proto-Italic*ad
  3. Proto-Italic*ad-
  4. Latinad-
  5. Proto-Indo-European[Term?]
  6. Proto-Italic*apjō
  7. Latinapiō
  8. Latinapīscor
  9. Latinadipīscor
  10. Latinadeptu
  11. Frenchadepte
  12. English todayadept

Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).

Words from the same roots

Latinadeptus all →

readept

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.