pratique

See also: pratiqué

English

Etymology

Originated 1600—10. Borrowed from French pratique, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin practica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹæˈtiːk/
• IPA^(key): /pɹæˈtik/, /pɹəˈtik/

Noun

pratique (countable and uncountable, plural pratiques)

1. (nautical) Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
2. (obsolete) Practice; habits.
   • R. North

     one of English education and pratique

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pratique”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

References

• Pratique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “pratique”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “pratique”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Medieval Latin practica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁa.tik/

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Adjective

pratique (plural pratiques)

1. applied; concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it (as opposed to spéculatif or théorique).
2. concrete, practical.
3. belonging to the everyday or mundane.
4. experienced.
5. convenient; handy.

   Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique. ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms

• pratiquement

Noun

pratique f (plural pratiques)

1. practice
2. execution or implementation (of something)
3. methods, process, way (of doing or achieving something)
4. set of customs in a country or group of people

   C’est la pratique de ce pays. ― Those are the customs of this country.

5. experience

   C’est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires. ― This is a man with business experience.

6. act of frequenting

   Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société. ― He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people.

7. clientele, regular clients

   La pratique n’afflue pas à ce magasin. ― Customers don't flow to that store.

   Vous me servez mal, vous n’aurez plus ma pratique. ― You’re serving me poorly, you're going to lose my business.

8. (nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine)

   On donna pratique à ce navire après qu’il eut fait la quarantaine. ― We gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine.

9. a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism.

Descendants

• → English: practique

Verb

pratique

1. first-person singular present indicative of pratiquer
2. third-person singular present indicative of pratiquer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of pratiquer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of pratiquer
5. second-person singular imperative of pratiquer

References

• “pratique” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “pratique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• repiquât

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Norman

Etymology

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Noun

pratique f (plural pratiques)

1. (Jersey) practice

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Portuguese

Verb

pratique

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