# tic
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪk/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪk
* Homophone: tick

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from French tic.

#### Noun

tic (plural tics)
* (neurology) A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
** 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive, non-rhythmic movement (e.g. eye blinking) or vocalization (e.g. throat clearing).
* (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
** 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian‎:Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.

##### Translations
#### Verb

tic (third-person singular simple present tics, present participle ticcing, simple past and past participle ticced)
* (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
** 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

Clipping of ticket.

#### Noun

tic (plural tics)
* (informal) Clipping of ticket.

##### Derived terms

* tix

### See also

* tic douloureux
* tic tac
* tic-tac-toe
* trip tic

### Further reading

* tic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* CTI, ICT, TCI, cit, cit.

## Acholi
### Noun

tic
* work

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈtik]

### Noun

tic m (plural tics)
* tic

### Further reading

* “tic” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
* “tic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “tic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

## French
### Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tik/
* Audio:(file)
* Audio:(file)
* Homophone: tique

### Noun

tic m (plural tics)
* tic

#### Descendants

* → English: tic
* → German: Tic
* → Portuguese: tique

### Further reading

* “tic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtik/
* Rhymes: -ik
* Hyphenation: tìc

### Noun

tic m (invariable)
* tic, twitch

### References

* ↑ tic in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Latvian
### Verb

tic
* third-person singular/plural present indicative of ticēt
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of ticēt
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of ticēt

## Romanian
### Noun

tic n (plural ticuri)
* Obsolete form of spic.

#### Declension
### References

* tic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtik/ [ˈt̪ik]
* Rhymes: -ik
* Syllabification: tic

### Noun

tic m (plural tics)
* tic (movement)
* tick (written mark)
* tick (sound)

#### Related terms

* tictac/tic-tac
* tictaquear

### Further reading

* “tic”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
* “tic”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

## Swedish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tic. Attested since 1885.

### Noun

tic n
* (neurology, chiefly in the plural) a tic
* (colloquial, figuratively, chiefly in the plural) (unreasonable) compulsory behavior, a tic

#### Declension
### References

* tics in Svensk ordbok (SO)
* tics in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* tic in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)