didactic
See also: didàctic
English
editAlternative forms
edit- didactick (obsolete)
Etymology
editFrom French didactique, from Ancient Greek διδακτικός (didaktikós, “skilled in teaching”), from διδακτός (didaktós, “taught, learnt”), from διδάσκω (didáskō, “I teach, educate”). By surface analysis, didact + -ic.
Pronunciation
edit- enPR: dī-dăkˈtĭk, IPA(key): /daɪˈdæk.tɪk/, /dɪˈdæk.tɪk/
Audio (General Australian): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -æktɪk
- Hyphenation: di‧dac‧tic
Adjective
editdidactic (comparative more didactic, superlative most didactic)
- Instructive or intended to teach or demonstrate, especially with regard to morality.
- Synonyms: educative, instructive
- didactic poetry
- 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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.
- 1856 February, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Oliver Goldsmith”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green, Reader, & Dyer, published 1871, →OCLC:
- The finest didactic poem in any language.
- Excessively moralizing.
- (medicine) Teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and clinical application.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editinstructive or intended to teach or demonstrate
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excessively moralizing
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teaching from textbooks rather than laboratory demonstration and application
Noun
editdidactic (plural didactics)
Translations
edittreatise on teaching
Romanian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French didactique.
Adjective
editdidactic m or n (feminine singular didactică, masculine plural didactici, feminine and neuter plural didactice)
Declension
editDeclension of didactic
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | didactic | didactică | didactici | didactice | ||
definite | didacticul | didactica | didacticii | didacticele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | didactic | didactice | didactici | didactice | ||
definite | didacticului | didacticei | didacticilor | didacticelor |
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