practicus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πρακτικός (praktikós, “of or pertaining to action, concerned with action or business, active, practical”), from πράσσω (prássō, “I do”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈprak.ti.kus/, [ˈpräkt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈprak.ti.kus/, [ˈpräkt̪ikus]

Adjective

practicus (feminine practica, neuter practicum); first/second-declension adjective

1. practical
2. active

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	practicus	practica	practicum		practicī	practicae	practica
Genitive	practicī	practicae	practicī		practicōrum	practicārum	practicōrum
Dative	practicō		practicō		practicīs
Accusative	practicum	practicam	practicum		practicōs	practicās	practica
Ablative	practicō	practicā	practicō		practicīs
Vocative	practice	practica	practicum		practicī	practicae	practica

Descendants

• → Catalan: pràctic
• → Czech: praktický
• → German: praktisch
  • → Danish: praktisk
  • → Dutch: praktisch
    • Afrikaans: prakties
    • → Indonesian: praktis
      • → Malay: praktis
      • → Sundanese: ᮕ᮪ᮛᮊ᮪ᮒᮤᮞ᮪ (praktis)
  • → Norwegian: praktisk
  • → Swedish: praktisk
• → Hungarian: praktikus
• → Italian: pratico
• → Old French:
  • → English: practic
• → Polish: praktyczny
• → Portuguese: práctico
• → Spanish: práctico
  • → English: practico
• → Yiddish: פּראַקטיש (praktish)
• ⇒ Late Latin: practico (verb)
  • Medieval Latin: practizo
    • → Middle French: pratiser, practiser
      • → Middle English: practisen, practizen
        • English: practise, practice
        • Scots: practeese
• ⇒ Latin: practica (adjective)
  • Old French: practique
    • Norman: pratique (Jersey)
  • → Alemannic German: Prattig
  • → Polish: praktyka
• ⇒ Latin: practicum (noun)
  • → Dutch: practicum
  • → English: practicum
  • → German: practicum

References

• “practicus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• practicus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• practicus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• practicus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016