adapt

Etymology

From Middle French adapter, from Latin adaptāre (“to fit to”), from ad- (“to”) + aptāre (“to make fit”), from aptus (“fit”); see apt.

verb

1. (transitive) To make suitable; to make to correspond; to fit or suit
2. (transitive) To fit by alteration; to modify or remodel for a different purpose; to adjust
   to adapt a story for the stage
   to adapt an old machine to a new manufacture
3. (transitive) To make by altering or fitting something else; to produce by change of form or character
   to bring out a play adapted from the French
   a word of an adapted form
4. (intransitive) To make oneself comfortable to a new thing.
   They could not adapt to the new climate and so perished.

adj

1. Adapted; fit; suited; suitable.
   This prediction, though somewhat obscure, is wonderfully adapt. c. 1709, Merlin's Prophecy, Jonathan Swift