different between critique vs critic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”), feminine of criticus (“critical”); see critic.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???ti?k/
• IPA^(key): /k???tik/

Noun

critique (plural critiques)

1. The art of criticism.
2. An essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc.
3. A point made to criticize something.

4. (obsolete) A critic; one who criticises.
   • 1625, John Williams, Great Britains Salomon (sermon)

     a question amongst critiques in the ages to come

Related terms

• critic

Translations

Verb

critique (third-person singular simple present critiques, present participle critiquing, simple past and past participle critiqued)

1. (US, proscribed) To review something; to criticize.

Translations

Further reading

• “critique”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “critique”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).
• critique in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• critique in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• critique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kritikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i.tik/

Adjective

critique (plural critiques)

1. critical (urgent)

2. critical (of great importance)
3. critical (related to criticism)
4. (of a person) judgemental

Descendants

• German: kritisch

Noun 1

critique f (plural critiques)

1. criticism
2. review, usually written
3. reason; logic

Derived terms

• la critique est aisée mais l’art est difficile

Noun 2

critique m or f (plural critiques)

1. critic (profession)

Related terms

• critiquer

Further reading

• “critique” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• citrique

Portuguese

Verb

critique

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of criticar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of criticar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of criticar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of criticar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?i?tike/, [k?i?t?i.ke]

Verb

critique

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of criticar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of criticar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of criticar.

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