tactique

English

Noun

tactique (plural tactiques)

1. Obsolete form of tactic.
   • 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Mr. Dangerfield Visits the Church of Chapelizod, and Zekiel Irons Goes A-fishing”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 202–203:

     The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. […] He had learned, by long experience, the best tactique under fire: he became actually taciturn; or, if he spoke, his speech was laconic and enigmatical; sometimes throwing out a proverb, and sometimes a text; and sometimes, when provoked past endurance, spouting mildly a little bit of meek and venomous irony.

French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak.tik/

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Noun

tactique f (plural tactiques)

1. tactic

Derived terms

• tactique du salami

Descendants

• → German: Taktik
• → Polish: taktyka
• → Persian: تاکتیک (tâktik)
• → Turkish: taktik

Adjective

tactique (plural tactiques)

1. tactical
2. (chemistry) tactic

   Antonym: atactique

Further reading

• “tactique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• acquitte, acquitté