didactic
/daɪˈdæktɪk/digh-DAK-tik
/daɪˈdæktɪk/digh-DAK-tik
Meaningteaching
Common meaning: meant to instruct
- didactto teachLiddell & Scott, Greek-English Lexicon (1883), p. 365 · scan
- icadjective ending: relating to
Journey through time
- Aryan root · reconstructed√DA‘know’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 145, p. 735 · scan
- Greekδιδάσκω‘to teach’
- Englishdidactic‘meant to instruct’ · today
Sources & notes
Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
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- US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
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Origin: Built on Greek διδάσκω ‘to teach’.
Roots
- διδάσκω Greek “to teach”
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