Where does “autocritica” come from?
autocritica (Italian) comes from Romanian critică, from French critiquer, 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.
autocritica (Italian): self-criticism
Definitions
- self-criticism
Ancestry of “autocritica”, step by step
autocritica traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via Romanian critică
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Romanian | critică | to criticize |
| 2 | French | critiquer | to criticise |
| 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 |
via Italian critica
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Italian | critica | criticism; female equivalent of critico; feminine... |