adapt

English

Etymology

From Middle English *adapten (attested in Middle English adapted (past participle)), from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdæpt/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æpt

Verb

adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adapting, simple past and past participle adapted)

1. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit

   Synonym: proportion

2. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust

   to adapt a story for the stage

   to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture

3. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character

   to bring out a play adapted from the French

   a word of an adapted form

4. (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.

   They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

Derived terms

• adaptable
• adaptate
• adaptation
• adaptative
• adapter
• adaption
• adaptitude
• adaptly
• adaptness
• adaptogen
• adaptor
• coadapt
• counteradapt
• deadapt
• maladapt
• misadapt
• nonadapting
• osmoadapt
• overadapt
• preadapt
• readapt
• unadapt

 

Related terms

terms related to adapt (verb)

• adaptational
• adaptatively
• adaptativeness
• adaptedness
• adaptability
• adaptableness
• adaptably
• adaptional
• adaptive
• adaptively
• adaptiveness
• adaptorial

Translations

to make suitable

• Albanian: adapt
• Bulgarian: приспособявам (bg) (prisposobjavam), приспособявам се (prisposobjavam se)
• Catalan: adaptar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 適應／适应 (zh) (shìyìng)

• Czech: adaptovat, přizpůsobit, upravit (cs)
• Dutch: aanpassen (nl)
• Esperanto: adapti (eo), akomodi (eo)
• Finnish: sovittaa (fi), mukauttaa (fi), sopeuttaa (fi), soveltaa (fi)
• French: adapter (fr)
• Gallurese: adattà
• German: anpassen (de), angleichen (de), anwenden (de), einrichten (de)
• Haitian Creole: adapte
• Hungarian: illeszt (hu), hozzáilleszt (hu), hozzáigazít (hu)
• Interlingua: adaptar
• Irish: oiriúnaigh
• Italian: adattare (it)
• Japanese: 適応する (ja) (てきおうする, tekiō suru)
• Korean: 적응하다 (ko) (jeogeunghada)
• Latin: adaptō
• Luxembourgish: adaptéieren
• Maori: urutau, whakaarotau
• Mongolian: тааруулах (taaruulax)
• Polish: adaptować (pl) impf or pf, zaadaptować pf
• Portuguese: adaptar (pt)
• Romanian: adapta (ro)
• Russian: приспоса́бливать (ru) impf (prisposáblivatʹ), приспосо́бить (ru) pf (prisposóbitʹ); подгоня́ть (ru) impf (podgonjátʹ), подогна́ть (ru) pf (podognátʹ), адапти́ровать (ru) (adaptírovatʹ)
• Sardinian:

  Campidanese: aggalai

• Sassarese: adattà
• Slovak: prispôsobiť
• Spanish: adaptar (es), ajustar (es)
• Swedish: anpassa (sv)
• Tagalog: iangkop
• Turkish: uydurmak (tr), adapte etmek (tr)
• Ukrainian: пристосо́вувати impf (prystosóvuvaty), пристосува́ти pf (prystosuváty), адаптува́ти (uk) impf or pf (adaptuváty)
• Welsh: addasu (cy)

to fit by alteration

• Bulgarian: нагласям (bg) (naglasjam)
• Catalan: adaptar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 適應／适应 (zh) (shìyìng)

• Czech: adaptovat, přizpůsobit, upravit (cs)
• Dutch: aanpassen (nl), bewerken (nl)
• Esperanto: alaranĝi, alfari
• Finnish: sovittaa (fi)
• French: s’adapter (fr)
• German: anpassen (de), modifizieren (de), überarbeiten (de), umarbeiten (de), adaptieren (de), umschreiben (de), einpassen (de), bearbeiten (de)
• Hungarian: átdolgoz (hu), adaptál (hu), átállít (hu)
• Italian: adattare (it)
• Maori: urutau, whāurutau, whakaurutau
• Polish: adaptować (pl) impf or pf, zaadaptować pf
• Portuguese: adaptar (pt)
• Slovak: prispôsobiť
• Spanish: adaptar (es)
• Turkish: uymak (tr), uyum sağlamak (tr), adapte olmak (tr)

to make by altering

• Bulgarian: преработвам (bg) (prerabotvam)
• Catalan: adaptar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 改編／改编 (zh) (gǎibiān), 改寫／改写 (zh) (gǎixiě)

• Czech: adaptovat
• Dutch: bewerken (nl)
• Finnish: mukauttaa (fi)
• French: adapter (fr)
• German: herrichten (de), rezipieren (de), nachempfinden (de), nachgestalten
• Hungarian: átültet (hu), adaptál (hu)
• Interlingua: adaptar
• Italian: adattare (it)
• Portuguese: adaptar (pt)
• Slovak: prerobiť
• Spanish: adaptar (es)
• Turkish: uyarlamak (tr)

to make oneself comfortable to a new thing

• Arabic: يتكيف مع
• Armenian: հարմարվել (hy) (harmarvel)
• Basque: egokitu, adaptatu
• Catalan: adaptar-se (ca)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 適應／适应 (sik¹ jing³)

  Mandarin: 適應／适应 (zh) (shìyìng)

• Czech: přizpůsobit se
• Esperanto: adaptiĝi, akomodiĝi
• Finnish: sopeutua (fi)
• French: s’adapter (fr)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: assimilieren (de), akkommodieren (de)

  Alemannic German: aapasse

• Hungarian: alkalmazkodik (hu)
• Italian: adattarsi (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Mongolian: аяыг дагах (ajayg dagax), дасах (mn) (dasax), зохицох (mn) (zoxicox)
• Polish: adaptować się impf or pf, zaadaptować się pf
• Portuguese: adaptar-se a
• Russian: приспоса́бливаться (ru) impf (prisposáblivatʹsja), приспосо́биться (ru) pf (prisposóbitʹsja), адапти́роваться (ru) (adaptírovatʹsja)
• Slovak: priviknúť
• Spanish: adaptarse (es), circunscribirse (es), ceñirse (es)
• Tagalog: umangkop
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: thích nghi (vi)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} alaranĝi
• French: ^{(please verify)} adapter (fr)
• Ido: ^{(please verify)} adaptar (io)
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 익숙해지다 (ko) (iksukhaejida)
• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} tilpasse
• Slovene: ^{(please verify)} prilagoditi (1), ^{(please verify)} prirediti (2)
• Yiddish: ^{(please verify)} אַדאַפּטירן (adaptirn)

Adjective

adapt (comparative more adapt, superlative most adapt)

1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable; apt.
   • c. 1709, Merlin's Prophecy, Jonathan Swift:

     This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt.

Translations

adapted (adjective)

• Albanian: adapt
• Bulgarian: подходящ (bg) (podhodjašt)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 適應／适应 (zh) (shìyìng)

• Esperanto: adaptita
• Finnish: sopiva (fi)
• French: adapté (fr)
• German: adaptiert (de)
• Italian: adattato (it)
• Japanese: 適合した (ja) (tekigō shita)
• Portuguese: adaptado (pt)
• Romanian: adaptat (ro) m
• Russian: адапти́рованный (ru) (adaptírovannyj)
• Spanish: adaptado (es)
• Swedish: anpassad (sv)
• Turkish: uygun (tr), adapte (tr)

References

• “adapt”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• APDTA

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈdap(t)/

Verb

adapt (third-person singular simple present adapts, present participle adaptin, simple past adaptit, past participle adaptit)

1. to adapt

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.