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