different between prototype vs criterion

English

Etymology

From French prototype or Late Latin prototypon, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos, “original; prototype”), from ?????- (pr?to-, “prefix meaning ‘first’”) (from ?????? (prôtos, “first; earliest”)) + ?????? (túpos, “blow, pressing; sort, type”) (from ????? (túpt?, “to beat, strike”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewp- (“to push; to stick”)). The word is analysable as proto- +? -type.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p???t?t??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?o?t??ta?p/, /-??-/
• Hyphenation: pro?to?type

Noun

prototype (plural prototypes)

1. An original form or object which is a basis for other forms or objects (particularly manufactured items), or for its generalizations and models. [from late 16th c.]
2. An early sample or model built to test a concept or process.
3. (computing) A declaration of a function that specifies the name, return type, and parameters, but none of the body or actual code.
4. (semantics) An instance of a category or a concept that combines its most representative attributes.
5. (motor racing) A type of race car, a racing sports car not based on a production car. A 4-wheeled cockpit-seating car built especially for racing on sports car circuits, that does not use the silhouette related to a consumer road car.

Synonyms

• (basis for other forms or objects): see Thesaurus:exemplar
• (motorsport): racing prototype, sports prototype, prototype racecar

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• antetype
• first article

Verb

prototype (third-person singular simple present prototypes, present participle prototyping, simple past and past participle prototyped)

1. (transitive) To create a prototype of.

Translations

References

Further reading

• prototype on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pr?totypus, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ?????????? (pr?tótupos).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t?.tip/

Noun

prototype m (plural prototypes)

1. prototype

Derived terms

• prototypique

Further reading

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototyper, definite plural prototypene)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• prototyp

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????- (pr?to-) + ????? (túpos)

Noun

prototype m (definite singular prototypen, indefinite plural prototypar, definite plural prototypane)

1. a prototype

References

• “prototype” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

English

Alternative forms

• criteria (nonstandard)
• criterium

Etymology

From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek ????????? (krit?rion, “a test, a means of judging”), from ?????? (krit?s, “judge”), from ????? (krín?, “to judge”); see critic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a??t???i.?n/, /k???t???i.?n/
• Rhymes: -??i?n

Noun

criterion (plural criteria)

1. A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

Usage notes

• The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common.
• The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria, this criteria, and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.

Related terms

• criterial
• crisis
• critic
• criticize
• critical

Translations

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• tricerion

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ????????? (krit?rion).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kri?te.ri.on/, [k???t???i?n]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kri?te.ri.on/, [k?i?t????i?n]

Noun

criterion n (genitive criteri?); second declension

1. criterion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type).

Descendants

• ? Catalan: criteri
• ? Dutch: criterium
• ? English: criterion
• ? German: Kriterium
• ? Italian: criterio
• ? Spanish: criterio