Etymology

Learned borrowing from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#APPARATUSCategory:English learned borrowings from Latin#APPARATUSCategory:English terms derived from Latin#APPARATUS apparātus. Doublet of apparatCategory:English doublets#APPARATUS.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US, General South African, Indic)
  • IPA^(key): /ˌæp.əˈɹeɪ.təs/Category:English 4-syllable words#APPARATUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#APPARATUS
  • Rhymes: -eɪtəsCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪtəs#APPARATUSCategory:Rhymes:English/eɪtəs/3 syllables#APPARATUS
• (US, Canada)
  • IPA^(key): /ˌæp.əˈɹæt.əs/Category:English 4-syllable words#APPARATUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#APPARATUS

  • Audio (US):

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    Category:English terms with audio pronunciation#APPARATUS
  • Rhymes: -ætəsCategory:Rhymes:English/ætəs#APPARATUSCategory:Rhymes:English/ætəs/4 syllables#APPARATUS
• (UK, General Australian, New Zealand, General South African, Jamaica)
  • IPA^(key): /ˌæp.əˈɹɑː.təs/Category:English 4-syllable words#APPARATUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#APPARATUS
  • Rhymes: -ɑːtəsCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑːtəs#APPARATUSCategory:Rhymes:English/ɑːtəs/4 syllables#APPARATUS
• (Indic) IPA^(key): /əˈparətəs/Category:English 4-syllable words#APPARATUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#APPARATUS
• (Philippines) IPA^(key): /ʔɐp.pɐˈɾaː.t̪ʊs/Category:English 4-syllable words#APPARATUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#APPARATUS

Noun

apparatus (plural apparatuses or apparatusses or apparatus or (both rare) apparatûs or apparatūs or (hypercorrect) apparati)Category:English lemmas#APPARATUSCategory:English nouns#APPARATUSCategory:English countable nouns#APPARATUSCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#APPARATUSCategory:English indeclinable nouns#APPARATUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#APPARATUSCategory:Pages with entries#APPARATUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#APPARATUS

1. The entirety of means whereby a specific production is made existent or task accomplished.

   Synonyms: dynamic, mechanism, setup

   • 1999 April 24, Martin Kettle, Alex Brummer, quoting Tony Blair, “The bombing goes on”, in The Guardian‎:

     These television stations are part of the apparatus and power of Milosevic. This is the apparatus he has used to do the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. It is the apparatus that keeps him in power and we are entirely justified as Nato allies in damaging and taking on those targets.

     Category:English terms with quotations#APPARATUS

   • 2014 July 29, George Monbiot, “The rich want us to believe their wealth is good for us all”, in The Guardian‎:

     Among the many good points Thomas Piketty makes in Capital in the Twenty First Century – his world-changing but surprisingly mild book – is that extreme inequality can be sustained politically only through an “apparatus of justification”.

     Category:English terms with quotations#APPARATUS

   • 2017 August 20, “The Observer view on the attacks in Spain”, in The Observer‎:

     Many jihadist plots have been foiled and the security apparatus is getting better, overall, at pre-empting those who would do us ill. But, they say, the nature of the threat and the terrorists’ increasing use of low-tech, asymmetrical tactics such as hire vehicles and knives, make it all but impossible to stop every assault.

     Category:English terms with quotations#APPARATUS

   • 2021 March 4, Emma Graham-Harrison, “China's Communist party ran campaign to discredit BBC, thinktank finds”, in The Guardian‎:

     It describes a “coordinated effort by the CCP’s propaganda apparatus … to discredit the BBC, distract international attention and recapture control of the narrative,” mostly outside Chinese borders.

     Category:English terms with quotations#APPARATUS

2. A complex machine or instrument.

   Synonyms: device, instrument, machinery

   • 1880–1881, Thomas Hardy, chapter I, in A Laodicean; or, The Castle of the De Stancys. A Story of To-day. […], volume III, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1881, →OCLC, book the fifth (De Stancy and Paula), page 40:

     “I have met my young photographer,” said De Stancy, cheerily. “What a small world it is, as every busybody truly observes! I am wishing he could take some views for us as we go on; but you have no apparatus with you, I suppose, Mr. Dare?”

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   • 1983 July 30, Stacy V. Jones, “Apparatus For Study Of Planets”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     An apparatus for exploring the atmosphere of a planet such as Venus, at a specific altitude, was patented this week for a French agency, the Office Nationale d'Etudes et de Recherche Aerospatiales.

     Category:English terms with quotations#APPARATUS

3. (collectiveCategory:English collective nouns#APPARATUS) An assortment of tools and instruments.

   Synonyms: tools, gear, equipment

   • 1786, John Jeffries, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, A narrative of the two aerial Voyages of Dr. J. with Mons. Blanchard: with meteorological observations and remarks.‎, page 45:

     We immediately threw out all the little things we had with us, ſuch as biſcuits, apples, &c. and after that one of our oars or wings; but ſtill deſcending, we caſt away the other wing, and then the governail ; having likewiſe had the precaution, for fear of accidents, while the Balloon was filling, partly to looſen and make it go eaſy, I now ſucceeded in attempting to reach without the Car, and unſcrewing the moulinet, with all its apparatus; I likewiſe caſt that into the ſea.

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4. A bureaucratic organization, especially one influenced by political patronage.

   Synonym: machine

   • 2006 April 3, David Walker, “Beyond her imagination”, in The Guardian‎:

     In English fiction—that is to say British fiction in the English language tradition—it is a subtle question because we dislike thinking abstractly and conceptualisation of government, where it exists, is vague and confused. Take bishops: they sat as legislators and so were part of the governing apparatus.

     Category:English terms with quotations#APPARATUS

5. (firefightingCategory:en:Firefighting#APPARATUS) A vehicle used for emergency response.
6. (gymnasticsCategory:en:Gymnastics#APPARATUS) Any of the equipment on which the gymnasts perform their movements.

   Hyponyms: parallel bars, uneven bars, vault, floor, pommel horse

7. (rhythmic gymnasticsCategory:en:Rhythmic gymnastics#APPARATUS) Any of the objects that the gymnasts wield while performing and used as part of the performance itself.

   Hyponyms: ball, clubs, hoop, ribbon, rope

8. (video gamesCategory:en:Video games#APPARATUS) A complex, highly modified weapon (typically not a firearm); a weaponized “Rube Goldberg machine.”
9. (textual criticismCategory:en:Textual criticism#APPARATUS) In an edition, a system of notations providing information, especially regarding variant readings of a text (a critical apparatus)

References

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ap.paˈraː.tʊs]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#APPARATUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#APPARATUS
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ap.paˈraː.tus]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#APPARATUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#APPARATUS

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of apparō (“to prepare”).

Etymology 2

From apparō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -tus (action noun)#APPARATUS.

References

• “appărātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “appărātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “apparātus¹”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “apparātus²”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “appărātus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• "apparatus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
• apparatus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016