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critic

English

Alternative forms

  • critick (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós, of or for judging, able to discern), from ????? (krín?, I judge).

Pronunciation

  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /?k??t.?k/
  • Rhymes: -?t?k

Noun

critic (plural critics)

  1. A person who appraises the works of others.
  2. A specialist in judging works of art.
  3. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
    • When an author has many beauties consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature.
  4. An opponent.
  5. Obsolete form of critique (an act of criticism)
  6. Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism)
    • 1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Chapter 21, page 550
      And, perhaps, if they were distinctly weighed, and duly considered, they would afford us another sort of logic and critic, than what we have been hitherto acquainted with.

Derived terms

  • armchair critic
  • criticess

Related terms

Translations

Verb

critic (third-person singular simple present critics, present participle criticking, simple past and past participle criticked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
    • 1607, Antony Brewer (attributed), Lingua, or the Combat of the Five Senses for Superiority
      Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

Anagrams

  • citric

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English critique, from French critique, from New Latin critica (critique).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?c???t??c/

Noun

critic f (genitive singular critice, nominative plural criticí)

  1. critique
    Synonym: beachtaíocht
  2. criticism
    Synonym: criticeas, léirmheastóireacht

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

  • "critic" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “critic” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Ladin

Adjective

critic m pl

  1. masculine plural of critich

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French critique and Latin criticus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kri.tik/

Noun

critic m (plural critici)

  1. critic

Adjective

critic m or n (feminine singular critic?, masculine plural critici, feminine and neuter plural critice)

  1. critical

Declension

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crisis

English

Etymology

From Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis, a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute), from ????? (krín?, pick out, choose, decide, judge).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?a?s?s/

Noun

crisis (plural crises)

  1. A crucial or decisive point or situation; a turning point.
  2. An unstable situation, in political, social, economic or military affairs, especially one involving an impending abrupt change.
  3. A sudden change in the course of a disease, usually at which point the patient is expected to either recover or die.
  4. (psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
  5. (drama) A point in a drama at which a conflict reaches a peak before being resolved.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • critic
  • critical
  • criticize
  • critique
  • criterion

Translations

Further reading

  • crisis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • crisis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Asturian

Noun

crisis f (plural crisis)

  1. crisis

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /?k?i.zis/
  • Rhymes: -izis

Noun

crisis

  1. plural of crisi

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crisis, from Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kri.z?s/
  • Hyphenation: cri?sis

Noun

crisis f (plural crises or crisissen, diminutive crisisje n)

  1. crisis
  2. financial crisis

Derived terms

Related terms

  • kritiek
  • kritisch

Descendants

  • ? Indonesian: krisis

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crisis.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kri.?zis/

Noun

crisis f (oblique plural crisis, nominative singular crisis, nominative plural crisis)

  1. crisis, emergency; urgent situation

Spanish

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (krísis, a separating, power of distinguishing, decision, choice, election, judgment, dispute), from ????? (krín?, pick out, choose, decide, judge).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?k?isis/, [?k?i.sis]

Noun

crisis f (plural crisis)

  1. crisis
  2. attack; fit

Derived terms

  • anticrisis
  • crisis de comportamiento
  • crisis de migraña

Related terms

  • crítico

Further reading

  • “crisis” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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