criterion

== English == === Alternative forms === criteria (nonstandard) criterium === Etymology === From New Latin criterion, from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion, “a test, a means of judging”), from κριτής (kritḗs, “judge”), from κρίνω (krínō, “to judge”); see critic. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɹɪˈtɪəɹi.ən/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /kɹaɪˈtɪə.ɹi.ən/ (General American) IPA(key): /kɹaɪˈtɪɹ.i.ən/ Rhymes: -ɪəɹiən, -ɪɹiən === Noun === criterion (plural criteria or (rare) criterions) A standard, test, or requirement by which individual things or people may be compared and judged; a gauge. Near-synonym: benchmark ==== Usage notes ==== The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common. The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria, this criteria, and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== criterial crisis critic criticize critical ==== Translations ==== ==== Further reading ==== criterion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia “criterion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “criterion”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. === Anagrams === tricerion == Latin == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek κριτήριον (kritḗrion). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [krɪˈtɛ.ri.ɔn] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [kriˈtɛː.ri.on] === Noun === criterion n (genitive criteriī); second declension criterion ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter, Greek-type). ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: criteri → French: critère → Dutch: criterium → English: criterion → German: Kriterium → Italian: criterio → Portuguese: critério → Romanian: criteriu → Sicilian: critèriu → Spanish: criterio