# pratique
## English
### Etymology

Originated 1600–10. Borrowed from Middle French practique, pratique, from Medieval Latin prāctica. Doublet of practice.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /pɹæˈtiːk/
* (US) IPA: /pɹæˈtik/, /pɹəˈtik/
* Rhymes: -iːk

### Noun

pratique (countable and uncountable, plural pratiques)
* (nautical) Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease.
** 1615, George Sandys, “The First Booke”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC, pages 5–6:It is here a cuſtome ſtrictly obſerued (as alſo elſevvhere vvithin the Streights belonging to the Chriſtians) not to ſuffer any to trafficke or come aſhore before they haue a Pratticke from the Signoirs of Health: vvhich vvill not be granted vntill forty dayes after their arriuall, […] Notvvithſtanding, they vpon requeſt vvill carry you to the Lazaretto (vvhich is in the nature of a Peſt-houſe) there to abide vntill the date be expired. But if any fall ſicke amongſt them in the meane ſeaſon, their Pratticke is accordingly prolonged. A great inconuenience to the Merchants, but at Venice intollerable: vvhere vvhen they haue Pratticke, they are enforced to vnlade at the Lazaretto.
* (obsolete) Practice; habits.
** a. 1734, Roger North, Autobiography:Whereas in private teaching, their company is either superiors, inferiors, and if equals, but a few, without the liberty and variety of pratique as in a populous school.

### References

* Pratique on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “pratique”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, →ISBN.
* “pratique”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
* “pratique”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Middle French practique, from Medieval Latin prāctica.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʁa.tik/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

pratique (plural pratiques)
* practical, applied (concerning action or intervention of human will on the real to change it)
    Synonym: appliqué
    Antonyms: spéculatif, théorique
* concrete, practical
    Synonym: concret
    Antonym: abstrait
* belonging to the everyday or mundane
    Synonyms: commun, quotidien
* experienced
    Synonym: expérimenté
* convenient; handy
    Synonym: commode
    Cette télécommande est vraiment pratique.This remote control is really convenient.

#### Derived terms

* en pratique
* pratiquement

### Noun

pratique f (plural pratiques)
* practice
* execution or implementation (of something)
* methods, process, way (of doing or achieving something)
* set of customs in a country or group of people
    C’est la pratique de ce pays. ― Those are the customs of this country.
* experience
    C’est un homme qui a la pratique des affaires. ― This is a man with business experience.
* act of frequenting
    Il a beaucoup gagné à la pratique de la bonne société. ― He’s gained a lot by frequenting good people.
* clientele, regular clients
    La pratique n’afflue pas à ce magasin. ― Customers don't flow to that store.
    Vous me servez mal, vous n’aurez plus ma pratique. ― You’re serving me poorly, you're going to lose my business.
* (nautical) freedom to board or disembark (as opposed to quarantine)
    On donna pratique à ce navire après qu’il eut fait la quarantaine. ― We gave freedom to board or disembark to the ship after it went through quarantine.
* a steel or tin instrument placed in one's mouth to change one's voice during puppet ventriloquism

#### Derived terms

* bonne pratique
* mettre en pratique

#### Descendants

* → Romanian: practică

### Verb

pratique
* inflection of pratiquer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

#### References

* “pratique” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).
* “pratique”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

### Anagrams

* repiquât

## Norman
### Etymology

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### Noun

pratique f (plural pratiques)
* (Jersey) practice

## Portuguese
### Verb

pratique
* inflection of praticar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative