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kaptat

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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kap (to get used to; receive, get, gain) +‎ -tat (causative suffix)

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkɒptɒt]
  • Hyphenation: kap‧tat
  • Rhymes: -ɒt

Verb

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kaptat

  1. (intransitive, folksy) to go uphill, climb up, ascend (a steep slope)
  2. (intransitive, literary, rare) to proceed with difficulty against some obstacle
  3. (transitive, archaic) to drive (some animal) uphill[1]
  4. (transitive, archaic) to get someone used to something
    Synonyms: kapat, szoktat, rászoktat, hozzászoktat
  5. (transitive, archaic) to improve someone's situation; help someone recover, strengthen[1]

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 kaptat in Károly Gerstner, editor, Új magyar etimológiai szótár [New Etymological Dictionary of Hungarian] (ÚESz.), Online edition (beta version), Budapest: MTA Research Institute for Linguistics / Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics, 2011–2024.

Further reading

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  • kaptat in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN