critic

critic
\ \ [16] Critic and crisis both come ultimately from the Greek verb kríneindecide’ (a relative of Latin cerneredecide’, which produced English certain, crime, decree, discern, discrete, discriminate, excrement, riddlesieve’, secret, and secretary). The Greek derived noun krísisjudgment’ was used by the physicians Hippocrates and Galen for the ‘turning point of a disease’. It passed as a medical term via Latin crisis into English in the 15th century, where it was not used in the more general modern sense until the 17th century. The Greek derived noun kritésjudge’ produced in turn kritikósable to make judgments’; this came to be used as a noun, ‘one who makes judgments’, which passed via Latin criticus into English. Another descendant of krités was Greek kritérionstandard for making a judgment’, borrowed directly into English in the 17th century as criterion.
\ \ Cf.CERTAIN, CRIME, CRISIS, CRITERION, DISCERN, DISCRIMINATE, EXCREMENT, SECRET

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