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Webster 1913 Edition
Apparatus
Ap′pa-ratus
,Noun.
pl.
Apparatus
, also rarely Apparatuses
. [L., from
apparare
, apparatum
, to prepare; ad
+ prepare
to make ready.] 1.
Things provided as means to some end.
2.
Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.
3.
(Physiol.)
A collection of organs all of which unite in a common function;
as, the respiratory
. apparatus
Webster 1828 Edition
Apparatus
APPARA'TUS
,Noun.
plu.
1.
Things provided as means to some end; as the tools of an artisan; the furniture of a house; instruments of war. In more technical language, a complete set of instruments or utensils, for performing any operation.2.
In surgery, the operation of cutting for the stone, of three kinds, the small, the great, and the high.Apparatus is also used as the title of several books, in the form of catalogues, bibliothecas, glossaries, dictionaries, &c.
Definition 2024
apparatus
apparatus
See also: apparátus
English
Noun
apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatus)
- The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.
- A complex machine or instrument.
- An assortment of tools and instruments.
- A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.
- (firefighting) A vehicle used for emergency response.
Usage notes
- Is occasionally used as an invariant plural:
- Look at all of those apparatus.
Synonyms
- (entirety of means): setup, mechanism, dynamic
- (complex machine): instrument, machinery, device
- (assortment of tools): tools, gear, equipment
- (political patronage organization): machine
Related terms
Translations
complex machine or instrument
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assortment of tools or instruments
given system of procedures
bureaucratic organization
a vehicle used for emergency response
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of apparō (“prepare”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ap.paˈraː.tus/, [ap.paˈraː.tʊs]
Participle
apparātus m (feminine apparāta, neuter apparātum); first/second declension
- prepared, ready, having been prepared
- supplied, furnished, having been supplied
- magnificent, sumptuous, elaborate
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| nominative | apparātus | apparāta | apparātum | apparātī | apparātae | apparāta | |
| genitive | apparātī | apparātae | apparātī | apparātōrum | apparātārum | apparātōrum | |
| dative | apparātō | apparātō | apparātīs | ||||
| accusative | apparātum | apparātam | apparātum | apparātōs | apparātās | apparāta | |
| ablative | apparātō | apparātā | apparātō | apparātīs | |||
| vocative | apparāte | apparāta | apparātum | apparātī | apparātae | apparāta | |
- comparative: apparātior, superlative: apparātissimus
Noun
apparātus m (genitive apparātūs); fourth declension
- preparation, a getting ready
- A providing
- tools, implements, instruments, engines
- supplies, material
- magnificence, splendor, pomp
- vocative singular of apparātus
apparātūs m
- genitive singular of apparātus
- nominative plural of apparātus
- accusative plural of apparātus
- vocative plural of apparātus
Inflection
Fourth declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | apparātus | apparātūs |
| genitive | apparātūs | apparātuum |
| dative | apparātuī | apparātibus |
| accusative | apparātum | apparātūs |
| ablative | apparātū | apparātibus |
| vocative | apparātus | apparātūs |
Descendants
- Spanish: aparato
References
- apparatus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apparatus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- APPARATUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “apparatus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
- preparations for war; war-material: apparatus (rare in plur.) belli
- to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)
- apparatus in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016