critic

See also: crític

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French critique, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίνω (krínō, “I judge”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈkɹɪt.ɪk/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪtɪk

Noun

critic (plural critics)

  1. A person who appraises the works of others.
    • Macaulay
      The opinion of the most skilful critics was, that nothing finer [than Goldsmith's Traveller] had appeared in verse since the fourth book of the Dunciad.
  2. A specialist in judging works of art.
  3. One who criticizes; a person who finds fault.
    • I. Watts
      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)
    • Alexander Pope
      Make each day a critic on the last.
  6. Obsolete form of critique (the art of criticism)
    • 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

Translations
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Verb

critic (third-person singular simple present critics, present participle criticking, simple past and past participle criticked)

  1. (obsolete, transitive, intransitive) To criticise.
    • (Can we date this quote?) A. Brewer
      Nay, if you begin to critic once, we shall never have done.

Anagrams

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English critique, from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈcɾʲɪtʲɪc/

Noun

critic f (genitive singular critice, nominative plural criticí)

  1. critique
    Synonym: beachtaíocht
  2. criticism
    Synonym: criticeas, léirmheastóireacht

Declension
Declension of critic

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative critic criticí
Vocative a chritic a chriticí
Genitive critice criticí
Dative critic criticí

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an chritic na criticí
Genitive na critice na gcriticí
Dative leis an gcritic

don chritic

 leis na criticí

Derived terms
  • criticeas (“criticism”)
  • criticeoir (“critic”)
  • critic foirme (“form criticism”)
  • criticiúil (“critical”, adjective)
  • critic liteartha (“literary criticism”)
  • critic na díthógála (“deconstructive criticism”)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
critic chritic gcritic
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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): /ˈkri.tik/

Noun

critic m (plural critici)

  1. critic

Adjective

critic m or n (feminine singular critică, masculine plural critici, feminine and neuter plural critice)

  1. critical

Declension
declension of critic
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative		 indefinite critic critică critici critice
definite criticul critica criticii criticele
genitive/
dative		 indefinite critic critice critici critice
definite criticului criticei criticilor criticelor
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