Etymology

tactic

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Today it means: A maneuver, or action calculated to achieve some end. Full definition →

New Latin tactica ← Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós) ← Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*teh₂g-
  2. Proto-Hellenic*tat͏̌t͏̌ō
  3. Ancient Greekτάσσω (tássō)
  4. Ancient Greekτακτικός (taktikós)
  5. New Latintactica
  6. English todaytactic

Borrowed from New Latin tactica, from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to order, to arrange”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.