Etymograph

English

apparat

Apparat comes from Russian аппара́т ‘apparatus, apparat’, from Latin apparō ‘to prepare or make ready for something, put in…’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pr̥h₃o-1reconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*paro-1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEparō1‘to arrange, order, contrive, design’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEapparō1‘to prepare or make ready for something, put in order, provide, furnish, equip, organize’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEapparātus1
  6. Russianmodernаппара́т1apparát‘apparatus, apparat’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2010apparat1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English apparat
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: “The second thing to absorb was that, behind all…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*pr̥h₃o-Wiktionary, English apparatreconstructed
  2. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CE*paro-Wiktionary, English apparatreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEparōWiktionary, English apparat‘to arrange, order, contrive, design’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEapparōWiktionary, English apparat‘to prepare or make ready for something, put in order, provide, furnish, equip, organize’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEapparātusWiktionary, English apparat
  6. Russianmodernаппара́тWiktionary, English apparatapparát‘apparatus, apparat’
  7. Englishearliest quotation 2010apparatWiktionary, English apparat. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: “The second thing to absorb was that, behind all…”

Linked words

through Latin parō ‘to arrange, order, contrive, design’

several, empire, emperor, imperial, repair, separate, preparation, separation, empress, parachute, severance, preparatory, inseparable, imperium, imperious, disparate, pare, separator, rampart, imperator, reparation, separable, 16 more

Another origin of apparat

  1. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEapparātus
  2. Germanc. 1650–presentApparat‘apparatus, device, machine’
  3. Englishtodayapparat

Today it means

noun The Soviet machinery of state bureaucratic administration, or a similar communistic structure.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “apparat”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *pr̥h₃o- / apparat

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