criticus Latin · revision 9200

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=Cicero|origins=grc κριτικός}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈkrɪ.tɪ.kʊs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈkriː.ti.kus]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''criticus''' (feminine critica, neuter criticum, adverb criticē); first/second-declension adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|grc|κριτικός|tr=kritikós|t=able to judge, critical]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler's first source for the noun is Cicero, whom he dates 81–43 BC.^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ As a noun it meant a literary critic, a judge of literary works.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) As an adjective Lewis & Short find it only as a medical term, critical, of the crisis of a disease, as in Augustine.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Gaffiot 2016)

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+ British Medieval Latin used it in medicine of the critical day of a fever.^(DMLBS) It survives in Italian ''critico'' and French ''critique'', and through French ''critique'' it gave [[en|critic]] in the 1580s, “one who passes judgment”, whence [[en|critical]].^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses the noun.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 354–430 AD – Augustine uses it as a medical term.^(Gaffiot 2016)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 1580s – English ''critic'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A literary [[m|en|critic]].^(OLD 2012)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # ''(medicine)'' [[m|en|critical|alt=Critical]], of the crisis of a disease.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[critica]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[crisis]]

+ * [[en|critic]]

+ * [[en|critical]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}