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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CRETIC

From Latin crēticus consisting of the amphimacer, literally: Cretan, from Greek krētikos, from KrētēCrete.
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PRONUNCIATION OF CRETIC

cretic  [ˈkriːtɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CRETIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cretic is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES CRETIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cretic

A cretic is a metrical foot containing three syllables: long, short, long. In Greek poetry, the cretic was usually a form of paeonic or aeolic verse. However, any line mixing iambs and trochees could employ a cretic foot as a transition. In other words, a poetic line might have two iambs and two trochees, with a cretic foot in between. For Romance language poetry, the cretic has been a common form in folk poetry, whether in proverbs or tags. Additionally, some English poets have responded to the naturally iambic nature of English and the need for a trochaic initial substitution to employ a cretic foot. That is, it is commonplace for English poetry to employ a trochee in the first position of an otherwise iambic line, and some poets have consciously worked with cretic lines and fully cretic measures. English Renaissance songs employed cretic dimeter fairly frequently. Because the cretic, in stress-based prosody, is natural for a comparison or antithesis, it is well suited to advertising slogans and adages. Annie Hall's often-quoted line from the movie of that name is spoken as a cretic: "La-di-dah!"...

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CRETIC


acetic
əˈsiːtɪk
aeronautic
ˌɛərəˈnɔːtɪk
algetic
ælˈdʒiːtɪk
anetic
əˈniːtɪk
anoetic
ænəʊˈiːtɪk
aortic
eɪˈɔːtɪk
atretic
əˈtriːtɪk
cathartic
kəˈθɑːtɪk
chemotherapeutic
ˌkiːməʊθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk
docetic
dəʊˈsiːtɪk
equisetic
ˌekwɪˈsiːtɪk
etic
ˈiːtɪk
hermeneutic
ˌhɜːmɪˈnjuːtɪk
immunotherapeutic
ˌɪmjʊnəʊˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk
psychotherapeutic
ˌsaɪkəʊθerəˈpjuːtɪk
quartic
ˈkwɔːtɪk
Rhaetic
ˈriːtɪk
Rhetic
ˈriːtɪk
therapeutic
ˌθɛrəˈpjuːtɪk
zoetic
zəʊˈiːtɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CRETIC

crestfallenness
cresting
crestless
cresyl
cresylic
cresylic acid
cretaceous
cretaceously
Cretan
Crete
cretin
cretinise
cretinism
cretinoid
cretinous
cretism
cretonne
cretons
Creuse
creutzer

WORDS THAT END LIKE CRETIC

antidiuretic
antipyretic
anuretic
aporetic
athletic
cataphoretic
diaphoretic
diuretic
electrophoretic
game-theoretic
heretic
hysteretic
iontophoretic
loop diuretic
Masoretic
model-theoretic
natriuretic
paretic
pyretic
syncretic
theoretic

Synonyms and antonyms of cretic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «cretic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CRETIC

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The translations of cretic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «cretic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

cretic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cretic
570 millions of speakers

English

cretic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

cretic
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

cretic
280 millions of speakers

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cretic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cretic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

cretic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cretic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cretik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

cretic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

cretic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

cretic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cretik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

cretic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

cretic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्तोटीक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cretic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cretic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cretic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

cretic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cretic
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

cretic
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

cretic
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

cretic
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

cretic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of cretic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CRETIC»

The term «cretic» is normally little used and occupies the 147.768 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CRETIC» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «cretic» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «cretic» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRETIC»

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Cicero: Pro P. Sulla Oratio
(a) Cretic-spondee/cretic-trochee (-u- -y), including resolved forms (Zielinski classes resolved forms separately as licitae or malae). (b) Double-cretic/ molossus-cretic (-y- -uy), including resolved forms and substitution of choriamb (- uu-)/ epitrite ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Dominic H. Berry, 2004
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Between Grammar and Rhetoric: Dionysius of Halicarnassus on ...
The word toutovl, which would normally be scanned as a cretic (---), is described as 'either a bacchius (--w) or a cretic (-"-)'. On the other hand, xfj re jtoXet is analysed as a 'paean' (_~~~); which would mean that the final syllable of noXei is  ...
Casper Constantijn De Jonge, 2008
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Pliny the Younger: 'Epistles'
k k – – k x | resolved molossus + cretic exorare me potes uno modo, – k – –k x | double cretic si nunc saltem plurimas et longissimas miseris. –k– –x| – k – – x | 2 × cretic–spondee haec mihi sola excusatio uera, ceterae falsae uidebuntur.
Pliny the Younger, Pliny (the Younger.), Christopher Whitton, 2013
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A treatise on Greek Tragic Metres; with the choric parts of ...
CRETIC VERSES. The Cretic foot, _ V _, is, in fact, nothing more than the catalectic form of the Trochaic dipodia; hence we see the reason why the middle syllable of the Cretic is necessarily short, being the first thesis in the dipodia, and the ...
William LINWOOD (M.A.), 1855
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A Treatise on Greek Tragic Metres: With the Choric Parts of ...
The Cretio foot, _ w _, is, in fact, nothing more than the cata- lectic form of the Trochaic dipodia; hence we see the reason why the middle syllable of the Cretic is necessarily short, being the first thesis in the dipodia, and the doubtful quantity  ...
William Linwood, 1855
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CICERO
The following are C.'s favorite shapes in order of preference: 1 – – – × (cretic + trochee) 2 – ––– × (molossus + cretic) 3 – – – × (double cretic) 4 – ––– – × ( molossus + double trochee) 5 – – – – × (cretic + double trochee) 6 – – × (cretic + iamb) 7 ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Andrew R. Dyck, 2010
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The Art of Caesar's Bellum Civile: Literature, Ideology, and ...
In the opening of his oration, Afranius asks Caesar to put down his anger with an impressive molossus—trochee (militihus suscensendum, 1.84.3), a variation of the cretic—trochee, which is the mo; common clausula attested in Cicero's ...
Luca Grillo, 2012
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Cicero: De Oratore:
Type A: cretic (183m) + trochee Kh (— w — I — including certain resolved forms, e.g. 2 cûnâm uënit. 10 capita sëmâtâ. 14 debitâmque riftrâmûs. The last is an example of what is often called the ''esse uideatur clausula (Aev = 1st paean ...
Marcus Tullius Cicero, David Mankin, 2011
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Humanistica Lovaniensia
27 Namely, in Oraйо I, 4 double spondee; 1 double cretic; 1 spondee-double trochee; 3 cretic-double trochee; 1 cretic-paeon primus. In Oratio II, we noted 2 spondee- double trochee; 1 cretic-paeon primus; 2 cretic-double trochee; 9 double ...
Jozef Ijsewijn, 1997
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The Grecian Drama: A Treatise on the Dramatic Literature of ...
Resolutions render the cretic so like paeons, that it cannot be distinguished from them except in that the paeons (not admitting a contraction of the thesis) are wholly averse to the cretic. And, in truth, the numbers of the two kinds are most ...
John Richard Darley (Bp. of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh), 1840

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRETIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term cretic is used in the context of the following news items.
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5 Seconds of Summer remains hot boy band of today
... Commando, Rockaway Beach, We're A Happy Family, Cretic Hop, Teenage Lobotomy, I Wanna Be Sedated, I Just Want To Have Something ... «Philippine Star, Feb 15»
2
Natural Gas Partners-backed Catapult Energy Services Group …
Cretic was created to address the growing market for well completion and intervention services in longer horizontal wells drilled from pad ... «Business Wire, Jun 14»
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America's New It Girl, Mindy Kaling Graces the Cover of Elle
Reporter: In 2011, her mom was diagnosed with stage 4 pan cretic cancer and died eight months later. That same day, she found, he mindy ... «ABC News, Jan 14»
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Abigail Stauffer, playing at Mash, expands her folky blues to include …
seems she's missing a lot personally ...im going harsh as any cretic she has lyrics however she need put more emotions into hear words and ... «AnnArbor.com, Aug 13»
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Rainbows and unicorns: A linguistic history
So if you'd like to enrich the language with some new rainbow-cretic collocations, I offer my suggestion: Rainbows and boogeymen and heart ... «The Week Magazine, Feb 13»
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La-La-Lullaby - Pajanimals - The Jim Henson Company
peter warren 5 months ago. Did you cretic the curious buddies. Read more Show less. Reply · 1. ▽ Report spam or abuse. sheena walker 4 ... «YouTube, Jul 09»

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« EDUCALINGO. Cretic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cretic>. Apr 2024 ».
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