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- Ancient Greek · derived fromκριτικός“of or for judging, able to discern”
- English todaycriticize
From critic + -ize; first element from Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós, “of or for judging, able to discern”), from κρίσις (krísis, “decision, judgement”).
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.