pratique

See also: pratiqué

English

Etymology

Originated 1600–10. Borrowed from Middle French practique, pratique, from Medieval Latin prāctica. Doublet of practice.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɹæˈtiːk/
• (US) IPA^(key): /pɹæˈtik/, /pɹəˈtik/
• Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

pratique (countable and uncountable, plural pratiques)

1. (nautical) Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
   • 1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, pages 5–6:

     It is here a cuſtome ſtrictly obſerued (as alſo elſevvhere vvithin the Streights belonging to the Chriſtians) not to ſuffer any to trafficke or come aſhore before they haue a Pratticke from the Signoirs of Health: vvhich vvill not be granted vntill forty dayes after their arriuall, […] Notvvithſtanding, they vpon requeſt vvill carry you to the Lazaretto (vvhich is in the nature of a Peſt-houſe) there to abide vntill the date be expired. But if any fall ſicke amongſt them in the meane ſeaſon, their Pratticke is accordingly prolonged. A great inconuenience to the Merchants, but at Venice intollerable: vvhere vvhen they haue Pratticke, they are enforced to vnlade at the Lazaretto.

2. (obsolete) Practice; habits.
   • a. 1734, Roger North, Autobiography:

     Whereas in private teaching, their company is either superiors, inferiors, and if equals, but a few, without the liberty and variety of pratique as in a populous school.

References

• Pratique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “pratique”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
• “pratique”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “pratique”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French practique, from Medieval Latin prāctica.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pʁa.tik/

• Audio:

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Adjective

pratique (plural pratiques)

1. practical, applied (concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it)

   Synonym: appliqué

   Antonyms: spéculatif, théorique

2. concrete, practical

   Synonym: concret

   Antonym: abstrait

3. belonging to the everyday or mundane

   Synonyms: commun, quotidien

4. experienced

   Synonym: expérimenté

5. convenient; handy

   Synonym: commode

   Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique.

   This remote control is really convenient.

Derived terms

• en pratique
• pratiquement

 

Noun

pratique f (plural pratiques)

1. practice
2. execution or implementation (of something)
3. methods, process, way (of doing or achieving something)
4. set of customs in a country or group of people

   C’est la pratique de ce pays. ― Those are the customs of this country.

5. experience

   C’est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires. ― This is a man with business experience.

6. act of frequenting

   Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société. ― He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people.

7. clientele, regular clients

   La pratique n’afflue pas à ce magasin. ― Customers don't flow to that store.

   Vous me servez mal, vous n’aurez plus ma pratique. ― You’re serving me poorly, you're going to lose my business.

8. (nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine)

   On donna pratique à ce navire après qu’il eut fait la quarantaine. ― We gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine.

9. a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism

Derived terms

• bonne pratique
• mettre en pratique

 

Descendants

• → Romanian: practică

Verb

pratique

1. inflection of pratiquer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• “pratique” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
• “pratique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• repiquât

Norman

Etymology

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Noun

pratique f (plural pratiques)

1. (Jersey) practice

Portuguese

Verb

pratique

1. inflection of praticar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative