Masculine

Apparat

Meaning

  1. (masculine, strong) apparatus, device, machine (complex instrument)
  2. (masculine, strong) apparat, apparatus (organisation, especially bureaucratic)
  3. (masculine, strong) the entirety of an editor's critical notes to a text, (loosely also) other appended information, such as indices etc.
  4. (abbreviation, alt-of, dated, masculine, strong) short for Telefonapparat (“telephone”)

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

apperaat

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/apaˈʁaːt/
Etymology

In summary

15th century, from Latin apparātus, perhaps in part through somewhat earlier Middle Low German appārāt (14th c.). See English apparatus for more.

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