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): /ˈpraːk.ti.kus/, [ˈpräːkt̪ɪkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈprak.ti.kus/, [ˈpräkt̪ikus]

Adjective

prācticus (feminine prāctica, neuter prācticum); 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	prācticus	prāctica	prācticum		prācticī	prācticae	prāctica
Genitive	prācticī	prācticae	prācticī		prācticōrum	prācticārum	prācticōrum
Dative	prācticō		prācticō		prācticīs
Accusative	prācticum	prācticam	prācticum		prācticōs	prācticās	prāctica
Ablative	prācticō	prācticā	prācticō		prācticīs
Vocative	prāctice	prāctica	prācticum		prācticī	prācticae	prāctica

Descendants

• → Catalan: pràctic
• Corsican: praticu
• → Czech: praktický
• → Friulian: pratic
• → German: praktisch
  • → Danish: praktisk
  • → Dutch: praktisch, practisch (superseded)
    • Afrikaans: prakties
    • → Indonesian: praktis
      • → Malay: praktis
      • → Sundanese: ᮕ᮪ᮛᮊ᮪ᮒᮤᮞ᮪ (praktis)
  • → Norwegian: praktisk
  • → Swedish: praktisk
• → Hungarian: praktikus
• → Italian: pratico
• → Ladin: pratich
• → Lombard: pratich
• → Old French:
  • → English: practic
  • → Romanian: practic
• → Piedmontese: pràtich
• → Polish: praktyczny
• → Portuguese: prático
• Sicilian: pràtticu
• → 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
    • Middle Dutch: practike
      • Dutch: praktijk, practijk (superseded)
        • Afrikaans: praktyk
        • → Indonesian: praktek → praktik
        • → West Frisian: praktyk
    • Middle French: practique
      • French: pratique
        • → English: pratique
        • → Romanian: practică
    • Norman: pratique (Jersey)
  • → Alemannic German: Prattig
  • → Polish: praktyka
  • Sicilian: pràttica
• ⇒ Latin: practicum (noun)
  • → Dutch: practicum
    • → Indonesian: praktikum
  • → 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, pre-publication website, 2005-2016