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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
unadept en · ADJ
Etymology
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Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
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
English unadept
From un- + adept.
Meanings
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Not adept; unproficient.
Forms
unadept en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *né
Proto-Indo-European *n̥-
Proto-Germanic *un-
Proto-West Germanic *un-
Old English un-
Middle English un-
English un-
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
English unadept
From un- + adept.
Meanings
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Someone who is not an adept.
And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge […].
1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
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