criterion

The story

1. Ancient Greek · derived fromκριτήριον“a test, a means of judging”
2. New Latin · borrowed fromcriterion
3. English todaycriterion

From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic.

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