aptitude

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Natural ability to acquire knowledge or skill.

   She showed an early aptitude for mathematics.

2. 2
   noun

   inherent ability

3. 3
   noun

   The condition of being suitable.

Etymology

From Middle French aptitude, from Medieval Latin aptitudo, from Latin aptus (“apt, fit”). By surface analysis, apt + -itude. Doublet of attitude.