practic

See also: pràctic

English

Etymology

From Middle English practic, practik, partly from Old French practique and partly from its etymon, Late Latin prācticus (“active”), from Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “I do”). Doublet of practico.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹæktɪk/

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.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , 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, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “practic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈprak.tik/
• Rhymes: -aktik
• Hyphenation: prac‧tic

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pratique, from Latin practicus.

Adjective

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

1. practical (relating to practise)
2. practical (feasible, applicable to reality)

Declension

Declension of practic

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	practic		practică	practici	practice
	definite	practicul		practica	practicii	practicele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	practic		practice	practici	practice
	definite	practicului		practicei	practicilor	practicelor

Adverb

practic

1. practically
2. (colloquial, loosely) basically, pretty much

Etymology 2

Verb

practic

1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of practica

References

• practic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)