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ap⋅per⋅tain

  [ap-er-teyn]
Use appertain in a Sentence
–verb (used without object)
to belong as a part, right, possession, attribute, etc.; pertain or relate (usually fol. by to): privileges that appertain to members of the royal family.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME a(p)perte(y)nen < OF apertenir. See ap- 1 , pertain
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ap·per·tain   (āp'ər-tān')   
intr.v.   ap·per·tained, ap·per·tain·ing, ap·per·tains
To belong as a proper function or part; pertain: problems appertaining to social reform.

[Middle English appertenen, from Old French apartenir, from Vulgar Latin *appartenēre, from Late Latin appertinēre : ad-, ad- + pertinēre, to belong; see pertain.]
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Word Origin & History

appertain 
c.1386, from O.Fr. apartenir, from L.L. adpertinere "to pertain to," from ad- "to, completely" + pertinere "to belong to" (see pertain). To belong as parts to the whole, or as members to a family or class.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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