κριτικός

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From κρῐτής (kritḗs, “judge”) +‎ -ῐκός (-ikós), from κρῑ́νω (krī́nō, “I judge”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

κρῐτῐκός • (kritikós) m (feminine κρῐτῐκή, neuter κρῐτῐκόν); first/second declension

1. Able to judge, discerning, critical
2. (Especially as a substantive concerning language): critic, grammarian, academic

Inflection

Related terms

Descendants

• Greek: κριτικός (kritikós)
• → Latin: criticus
  • Catalan: crític
  • English: critical
  • French: critique
  • Italian: critico
  • Portuguese: crítico
  • Romanian: critic
  • Russian: крити́ческий (kritíčeskij)
  • Spanish: crítico

References

• “κριτικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “κριτικός”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• κριτικός in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• G2924 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • critic idem, page 184.

Greek

Adjective

κριτικός • (kritikós) m (feminine κριτική, neuter κριτικό)

1. critical (expressing comment or judgement)

Declension

Noun

κριτικός • (kritikós) m or f (plural κριτικοί)

1. critic

   κριτικός θεάτρου (theatre critic)

Declension