strategetic
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Functionally strategy + -etic, rendering στρατηγητικός (stratēgētikós),[1] a rare variant of στρατηγικός (stratēgikós) (whence the more common English word strategic).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
strategetic (comparative more strategetic, superlative most strategetic)
- (now rare) Strategic. [from 19th c.]
- 1847, J. D. B. De Bow, Commercial Review of the South and West, page 261:
- The importance of having these great strategetic points fortified has been demonstrated by scientific gentlemen conversant with these subjects.
- 1862, Anthony Trollope, North America:
- He […] entertained an idea that Cairo was the nucleus or pivot of all really strategetic movements in this terrible national struggle.
- 1872, Elodie Lawton Mijatović, The History of Modern Serbia, page 258:
- This line must have immense strategetic importance to Turkey, since it guards against possible Serbian aggression.
References[edit]
- ^ “strategetic”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Further reading[edit]
- “strategetic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Robert Joseph Sullivan, A Dictionary of the English Language (1862), page 428