different between practic vs practitioner

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Late Latin practicus (“active”), from Ancient Greek ????????? (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from ?????? (práss?, “I do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?ækt?k/

Noun

practic (plural practics)

1. A person concerned with action or practice, as opposed to one concerned with theory.

Adjective

practic (comparative more practic, superlative most practic)

1. (archaic) Practical.
   • , II.i.4.3:

     They that intend the practic cure of melancholy, saith Duretus in his notes to Hollerius, set down nine peculiar scopes or ends […].

2. (obsolete) Cunning, crafty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.xii:

     she vsed hath the practicke paine / Of this false footman [...].

Derived terms

• practical

Related terms

• practise

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

From French pratique, from Latin practicus.

Adjective

practic m or n (feminine singular practic?, masculine plural practici, feminine and neuter plural practice)

1. practical
2. doable

Declension

English

Etymology

Formerly practicioner for *practicianer, from practician + -er (the suffix unnecessarily added, as in musicianer).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p?æk?t???n??/

Noun

practitioner (plural practitioners)

1. A person who practices a profession or art, especially law or medicine.
2. One who does anything customarily or habitually.
3. (dated) A sly or artful person.
   • c. 1572, John Whitgift, Admonition to the Parliament

     […] the men of St. John's were cunning practitioners, in shaking off their Masters and Heads.

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References

• practitioner at OneLook Dictionary Search