English
tactician
Tactician may come from French tacticien.
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttacticienuncertain
- Englishtodaytactician
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Frenchc. 1600–presenttacticienuncertain
- Englishtodaytactician
The story
Either borrowed from French tacticien or derived as tactic + -ian.
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teh₂g- ‘to order, to establish, to rule’
taste, contact, integrity, integrate, contingent, attain, tame, tangible, contiguous, taxonomy, contagion, tangent, talon, contaminate, talus, thwack, 31 more
through Proto-Hellenic *tat͏̌t͏̌ō
through Ancient Greek τάσσω ‘to arrange, to order’
Today it means
noun A person skilled in the planning and execution of tactics.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French tacticien / tactician