didactic

See also: didàctic

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EnglishEdit

WOTD – 26 April 2010

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Alternative formsEdit

• didactick (obsolete)

EtymologyEdit

From French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός ‎(didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός ‎(didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω ‎(didáskō, “I teach, educate”).

PronunciationEdit

• enPR: dī-dăkˈtĭk, IPA^(key): /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/, /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/
• Hyphenation: di‧dac‧tic

AdjectiveEdit

didactic ‎(comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)

1. Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Falling Bastilles, Insurrections of Women, thousands of smoking Manorhouses, a country bristling with no crop but that of Sansculottic steel: these were tolerably didactic lessons; but them [the Nobility] they have not taught.

   didactic poetry‎

   • Macaulay:

     The finest didactic poem in any language.

2. Excessively moralizing.
3. (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.

Derived termsEdit

Derived terms

didact didactical didactically

didacticism didacticist didacticistic

TranslationsEdit

instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate

• Catalan: didàctic
• Danish: didaktisk, belærende
• Finnish: didaktinen (fi), opettavainen, kasvattava (fi)
• French: didactique (fr)
• German: didaktisch (de)
• Italian: didattico (it)
• Norwegian: didaktisk

• Persian: تعلیمی (fa) ‎(ta'limi)
• Portuguese: didático (pt)
• Russian: наставнический (ru) ‎(nastavničeskij), нравоучительный (ru) ‎(nravoučitelʹnyj), дидакти́ческий (ru) ‎(didaktíčeskij),
• Serbo-Croatian: didàktičkī (sh)
• Spanish: didáctico (es)
• Swedish: didaktisk (sv)
• Turkish: eğitici (tr), eğitsel (tr), didaktik (tr), öğretici (tr), öğretsel

excessively moralizing

• Danish: didaktisk, docerende
• Finnish: opettavainen

• Russian: нравоучительный (ru) ‎(nravoučitelʹnyj)

teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application

• Catalan: didàctic
• Finnish: teoreettinen (fi)

• French: livresque (fr)
• Turkish: öğretici (tr)

NounEdit

didactic ‎(plural didactics)

1. (archaic) A treatise on teaching or education.

TranslationsEdit

treatise on teaching