English Explanatory Dictionary

apparat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

apparat apparats

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *perh₃-der. Latin parō Latin apparō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin apparātusder. Russian аппара́т (apparát)bor. English apparat Borrowed from Russian аппара́т (apparát, “apparatus, apparat”). Doublet of apparatus.

Related words

apparatchik apparatus
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