If the sexual act contains in itself all that is essential to generation, if the copula is de se apta ad generationem, prescinding from all antecedent and subsequent, temporary or permanent, obstructions to generation, there is no impotence.
The second group says the vasectomized man is incapable of performing an act de se apta ad generationem because his semen lacks the essential spermatozoa.
It is a mere quibble to say that an act is de se apta ad generationem if by no possibility generation ever can take place; nevertheless the congregations in four cases have apparently judged to the contrary.
Tam apta nuptiis quam bruma messibus, as welcome to a young woman as snow in harvest, saith Nevisanus: Et si capis juvenculam, faciet tibi cornua: marry a lusty maid and she will surely graft horns on thy head.
If you marry a maid, it is uncertain how she proves, Haec forsan veniet non satis apta tibi.
Et similiter si ea quae fiunt a natura fierent ab arte, hoc modo fierent sicut apta nata sunt fieri a natura; ut patet in sanitate, quam contigit fieri, et ab arte et a natura.
Soon after his return from Garfagnana he built his house in the Contrada Mirasol, and placed upon it the following characteristic inscription[608]: Parva sed apta mihi sed nulli obnoxia sed non Sordida parta meo sed tamen aere domus.
I E an-apta is an negative prefix, and apta participle of ap attain.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
