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==English==
==English==

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===Etymology===
From {{etyl|la|en}} {{m|la|*scepticus}}, only in plural {{term|lang=la|Sceptici||the sect of Sceptics}}, from {{etyl|grc|en}} {{term|σκεπτικός||thoughtful, inquiring|lang=grc}}, from {{term|σκέπτομαι||I consider|lang=grc}}, compare to {{term|σκοπέω||I view, examine|lang=grc}}.


===Pronunciation===
===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|en-us-sceptic.ogg|Audio (US)|lang=en}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈskɛp.tɪk/}}
* {{audio|en|En-us-sceptic.ogg}}

* {{rhymes|en|ɛptɪk|s=2}}
===Alternative forms===
* '''[[skeptic]]''' (''US'')


===Noun===
===Noun===
{{en-noun}} {{tcx|British spelling|lang=en}}
{{en-noun}}


# {{standard spelling of|en|skeptic|from=Commonwealth}}
# Someone who is undecided as to what is true and enquires after facts.
# Someone who habitually doubts accepted beliefs and claims presented by others, requiring strong evidence before accepting any belief or claim.


====Usage notes====
====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|Britsceptic}}
Sceptic is more commonly used in the [[British Commonwealth]], while in the US [[skeptic]] is used instead.

===Adjective===
{{en-adj}}

# {{standard spelling of|en|skeptic|from=Commonwealth}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|title=Morning Newspapers. (From the ''Morning Herald''.)|journal=The Standard|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/400931119/|issue=4754|date=14 September 1839|passage=Not long since O’Connell beat the '''sceptic''' geologists of the British Association of nonsense and “science” all to nothing by a discovery of fossil Whigs—very extraordinary and ferocious creatures they must have been in their day, which, of course, was far anterior to the creation of the world, according to the Mosaic account, which the bone-grubbing “philosophers” of the chalk formations have so properly exploded.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=[[w:Gifford Palgrave|William Gifford Palgrave]]|chapter=Life at Riaḍ|title=Narrative of a Year’s Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63)|volume=II|location=London; Cambridge|publisher=[[w:Macmillan Publishers|Macmillan and Co.]]|year=1865|page=3|passage=The black race, much inferior to the Arab in intellectual power and in steadiness of will, are at the same time free from the '''sceptic''' distrustfulness and deep jealousy so common among their white fellow-citizens.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|author=w:Milo Rau|chapter=Pussy Riot’s Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest and Juridical Metaperformance|editors=Alex Flynn; Jonas Tinius|title=Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance|publisher=w:Palgrave Macmillan|year=2015|section=part II (Theatre as Paradigm for Social Reflection: Conceptual Perspectives), section 2 (Political Theatricality)|page=283|isbn=978-1-349-46846-1|passage=As I said, my experience was: I travelled to Russia as a '''sceptic''' person and I returned as a European.}}

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==Romanian==

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===Etymology===
{{bor+|ro|fr|sceptique}}.


====Translations====
===Adjective===
{{ro-adj}}
{{trans-see|sceptic|skeptic}}


# [[skeptical]]
====Related terms====
* [[sceptical]]
* [[scepticism]]


====Declension====
[[et:sceptic]]
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Latest revision as of 12:29, 27 September 2024

English

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈskɛp.tɪk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛptɪk

Noun

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sceptic (plural sceptics)

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of skeptic.

Derived terms

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Adjective

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sceptic (comparative more sceptic, superlative most sceptic)

  1. Commonwealth standard spelling of skeptic.
    • 1839 September 14, “Morning Newspapers. (From the Morning Herald.)”, in The Standard‎[1], number 4754:
      Not long since O’Connell beat the sceptic geologists of the British Association of nonsense and “science” all to nothing by a discovery of fossil Whigs—very extraordinary and ferocious creatures they must have been in their day, which, of course, was far anterior to the creation of the world, according to the Mosaic account, which the bone-grubbing “philosophers” of the chalk formations have so properly exploded.
    • 1865, William Gifford Palgrave, “Life at Riaḍ”, in Narrative of a Year’s Journey Through Central and Eastern Arabia (1862-63), volume II, London, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., page 3:
      The black race, much inferior to the Arab in intellectual power and in steadiness of will, are at the same time free from the sceptic distrustfulness and deep jealousy so common among their white fellow-citizens.
    • 2015, Milo Rau, “Pussy Riot’s Moscow Trials: Restaging Political Protest and Juridical Metaperformance”, in Alex Flynn, Jonas Tinius, editors, Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, part II (Theatre as Paradigm for Social Reflection: Conceptual Perspectives), section 2 (Political Theatricality), page 283:
      As I said, my experience was: I travelled to Russia as a sceptic person and I returned as a European.

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French sceptique.

Adjective

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sceptic m or n (feminine singular sceptică, masculine plural sceptici, feminine and neuter plural sceptice)

  1. skeptical

Declension

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Declension of sceptic
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite sceptic sceptică sceptici sceptice
definite scepticul sceptica scepticii scepticele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite sceptic sceptice sceptici sceptice
definite scepticului scepticei scepticilor scepticelor
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