approprier
French
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to adapt (something) to a situation
- (reflexive) to seize, take
- (reflexive) to make one's own
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin appropriare, proprius (own, one's own).
Origin
Latin
proprius
Gloss
own, one's own
Concept
Semantic Field
Possession
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- propriospinal English
- appropriare Latin
- approprio, appropriare Latin
- proprius Latin
- proprio Italian
- appropriateur French
- propre French
- réapproprier French
- apropiar Spanish, Castilian
- *preyH- Proto-Indo-European
- apropriar Portuguese
- próprio Portuguese
- propre Old French
- propi Catalan, Valencian
- propio Galician
- proper Middle Dutch
- *prijos Proto-Italic
- propiu Asturian
- propio Venetian
- pruoprio Istriot