politique
English
editEtymology 1
editFrom French politique, from Latin politicus. Doublet of politic.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpolitique (plural politiques)
- (chiefly derogatory) A politician, especially one seen as being unprincipled.
- 2012, Peter Marshall, “Occult Following”, in Literary Review, section 404:
- Modern historical assessments of Cecil have veered from that of the cynical, secular politique to the image of the committed Protestant ideologue […]
Synonyms
editTranslations
editdubious politician
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Etymology 2
editAdjective
editpolitique (comparative more politique, superlative most politique)
- Obsolete form of politic.
- 1579, John Lyly, Euphues and his England:
- And surely me thinketh we cannot better bestowe our time on the Sea, then in aduice how to behaue our selues when we come to the shore: for greater daunger is there to ariue in a straunge countrey where the inhabitauntes be politique, then to be tossed with the troublesome waues, where the Marriners be vnskilfull.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Boldness”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Politique Body
Derived terms
editFrench
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin polīticus, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (politikós).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editpolitique (plural politiques)
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editDescendants
edit- → Polish: polityczny
Noun
editpolitique f (countable and uncountable, plural politiques)
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- → German: Politik
Noun
editpolitique m or f by sense (plural politiques)
- politician
- Synonym: politicien
Noun
editpolitique m (uncountable)
- the political world, the political sphere; politicians taken collectively
- méfiance à l’égard du politique ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
Further reading
edit- “politique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Norman
editEtymology
editFrom Latin polīticus, from Ancient Greek πολῑτικός (polītikós, “civic, constitutional, public”), from πόλις (pólis, “city”).
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editpolitique m or f
Noun
editpolitique f (uncountable)
Portuguese
editPronunciation
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Verb
editpolitique
- inflection of politicar:
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