Etymology

apropos

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Today it means: Of an appropriate or pertinent nature. Full definition →

French à propos
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  1. French · borrowed fromà propos“on that subject”
  2. English todayapropos

Borrowed from French à propos (“on that subject”). Similar in meaning and form, and to some extent etymology, to appropriate, but not a doublet of it.

Words from the same roots

Frenchà propos all →

in point

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.