heretic
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English heretyk, heretike, from Old French eretique, from Medieval Latin - or el. haereticus, from Ancient Greek αἱρετικός, itself from Ancient Greek αἱρέω.
Pronunciation- (noun) (America) IPA: /ˈhɛɹɪtɪk/
heretic (plural heretics)
- Someone whose beliefs are contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion they claim to belong to.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC ↗, page 62, lines 17–19:
- He semeth a sysmatyke
Or els an heretike,
For fayth in hym is faynte.
- (by extension) Someone who does not conform to generally accepted beliefs or practices.
- French: hérétique
- German: Ketzer, Ketzerin, Häretiker, Häretikerin, Abweichler, Abweichlerin
- Italian: eretico, eretica
- Portuguese: herege
- Russian: ерети́к
- Spanish: hereje
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