Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European [Term?]der.
Proto-Italic *apjō
Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Italic *-skō
Latin -scō
Latin apīscor
Latin adipīscor
Latin adeptusbor.
French adeptebor.
English adept
Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
Meanings
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly proficient.
Adept as she was, in all the arts of cunning and dissimulation, the girl Nancy could not wholly conceal the effect which the knowledge of the step she had taken, wrought upon her mind. 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Proto-Indo-European [Term?]der.
Proto-Italic *apjō
Latin apiō
Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti
Proto-Italic *-skō
Latin -scō
Latin apīscor
Latin adipīscor
Latin adeptusbor.
French adeptebor.
English adept
Borrowed from French adepte, from Latin adeptus (“who has achieved”), the past participle of adipisci (“to attain”).
Meanings
One fully skilled or well versed in anything; a proficient
adepts in philosophy
When he had achieved this task, he applied himself to the acquisition of stable language, in which he soon became such an adept, that he would perch outside my window and drive imaginary horses with great skill, all day. 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge:
Others, alas, had an instinct towards artificiality in their very blood, and became adepts in counterfeiting at the first glimpse of it. 1894-95, Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
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