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Adjective [English]

IPA: /zəˈtɛt.ɪk/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-zetetic.ogg
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζητητικός (zētētikós, “inquisitive, keen”), from ζητέω (zētéō, “I seek”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|ζητητικός||inquisitive, keen}} Ancient Greek ζητητικός (zētētikós, “inquisitive, keen”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} zetetic (not comparable)
  1. (philosophy) Proceeding by inquiry or investigation. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Philosophy
    Sense id: en-zetetic-en-adj-fBxAlzO4 Topics: human-sciences, philosophy, sciences
  2. Of or pertaining to zetetic astronomy (which employs zetetic principles to argue that the earth is flat). Tags: not-comparable Translations (Translations): zetetika (Esperanto), zeteettinen (Finnish), zététique (French), zetetico (Italian), zetetic (Occitan)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: zetetical, zetetick [archaic] Derived forms: zetetic astronomy, zetetically, zeteticism, zetetics, zetetist

Noun [English]

IPA: /zəˈtɛt.ɪk/ [UK, US] Audio: en-us-zetetic.ogg Forms: zetetics [plural]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek ζητητικός (zētētikós, “inquisitive, keen”), from ζητέω (zētéō, “I seek”). Etymology templates: {{uder|en|grc|ζητητικός||inquisitive, keen}} Ancient Greek ζητητικός (zētētikós, “inquisitive, keen”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} zetetic (plural zetetics)
  1. A skeptic. Translations (a sceptic, skeptic — see also skeptic): skeptik [masculine] (Czech), skeptikko (Finnish), zététique [masculine] (French), zetetic (Occitan), ске́птик (sképtik) [masculine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-zetetic-en-noun-HX27W1b-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: zetetical, zetetick [archaic]

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-02-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-02 using wiktextract (f90d964 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.