Etymology

critique

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Today it means: The art of criticism. Full definition →

French critique ← New Latin critica
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The story

  1. New Latin · derived fromcritica“critique”
  2. French · borrowed fromcritique
  3. English todaycritique

Unadapted borrowing from French critique, from New Latin critica (“critique”), feminine of criticus (“critical”); see critic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.