ept

See also: EPT

English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from inept; compare apt.

Adjective

ept (comparative more ept, superlative most ept)

1. (nonstandard or humorous) Skillful and knowledgeable; adept.
   • 1984, Military Intelligence - Volumes 10-12, page 62:

     These behaviors, developed in extremely bad basic and advanced training conditions were continued in better situations under more ept leadership.

   • 1991, United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Ethics, Preliminary Inquiry Into Allegations Regarding Senators Cranston, DeConcini, Glenn, McCain, and Riegle, and Lincoln Savings and Loan:

     ...known the ways of the world in Washington, and may not have been as one of my colleagues in the legislature said, "very ept", when it came to this stuff.

   • 1991, Anne Geller, M. J. Territo, Restore your life: a living plan for sober people, page 133:

     They're confident, calm, at ease, talkative, cheerful, and above all, socially very "ept."

   • 2003, Dana Stabenow, A Grave Denied, →ISBN, page 119:

     And someone who wasn't glacier ept might have thought the mouth of a glacier a great place to hide a body for a long, long time.

Etymology 2

Formed by analogy with slept.

Verb

ept

1. (Internet slang, humorous) simple past of eep

Anagrams

• PET, PTE, Pet., Pte, TPE, Tep, pet

Old Norse

Alternative forms

• eptir
• ᛆᚠᛐ (aft)

Etymology

From Proto-Norse ᛡᚠᚨᛏᛉ (ᴀfatʀ /⁠afᵃtr⁠/), from earlier Proto-Norse ᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱ (after), from Proto-Germanic *aftiri (“more aft, further behind”), *after, from Proto-Indo-European *apotero (“further behind, further away”), comparative form of *apo- (“off, behind”). Compare also aptr.

Adverb

ept

1. after
   • 800s, Rök runestone

     Æft Vāmōð standa rūnaʀ þāʀ, æn Varinn fāði, faðiʀ æft fæigjan sonu […]

     After Vámóðr these runes stand, but Varinn painted them, the father after the death-doomed son.

   • 900s, Ynglingatal, verse 2

     […] þás í stein / hinn stórgeði / Dusla konr / ept dvergi hljóp. […]

     when the great-minded offspring of Dusli [= Sveigðir] ran into the rock after the dwarf.