strategetic

English

Etymology

Functionally strategy +‎ -etic, rendering στρατηγητικός (stratēgētikós), a rare variant of στρατηγικός (stratēgikós) (whence the more common English word strategic).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɹatəˈdʒɛtɪk/

Adjective

strategetic (comparative more strategetic, superlative most strategetic)

1. (now rare) Strategic. [from 19th c.]
   • 1847, J. D. B. De Bow, Commercial Review of the South and West, page 261:

     The importance of having these great strategetic points fortified has been demonstrated by scientific gentlemen conversant with these subjects.

   • 1862, Anthony Trollope, North America:

     He […] entertained an idea that Cairo was the nucleus or pivot of all really strategetic movements in this terrible national struggle.

   • 1872, Elodie Lawton Mijatović, The History of Modern Serbia, page 258:

     This line must have immense strategetic importance to Turkey, since it guards against possible Serbian aggression.

Further reading

• “strategetic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Robert Joseph Sullivan, A Dictionary of the English Language (1862), page 428