Where does “musiikkikritiikki” come from?
musiikkikritiikki (Finnish) comes from Finnish kritiikki, from Swedish kritik, from French critique, from New Latin critica, from Latin criticus, from Ancient Greek κριτικός, from Ancient Greek κρίσις, from Ancient Greek κρίνω — to sift, separate, divide.
musiikkikritiikki (Finnish): music criticism
Definitions
- music criticism
Ancestry of “musiikkikritiikki”, step by step
musiikkikritiikki traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Finnish kritiikki
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finnish | kritiikki | criticism |
| 2 | Swedish | kritik | criticism |
| 3 | French | critique | critical; judgemental; criticism |
| 4 | New Latin | critica | critique; inflection of criticus: ##... |
| 5 | Latin | criticus | critical, decisive; a critic |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | κριτικός | Able to judge, discerning, critical; critic,... |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | κρίσις | decision, determination, judgment; trial,... |
| 8 | Ancient Greek | κρίνω | To separate, divide, part, distinguish between... |
| 9 | Proto-Hellenic | kríňňō | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | krinyéti | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | krey- | to sift, separate, divide |