diagnostic

See also: diagnòstic

English

Alternative forms

• diagnostick (obsolete)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁

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Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu.

Proto-Indo-European *dwísder.

Ancient Greek διά (diá)

Ancient Greek δια- (dia-)

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₃sḱétider.

Proto-Hellenic *gignṓskō

Ancient Greek γῐγνώσκω (gĭgnṓskō)

Ancient Greek δῐαγῐγνώσκω (dĭagĭgnṓskō)

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Hellenic *-tis

Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs)

Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Ancient Greek δῐᾰ́γνωσῐς (dĭắgnōsĭs)

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Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs)

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Hellenic *-kos

Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Hellenic *-tós

Ancient Greek -τος (-tos)

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Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)

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Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)

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Ancient Greek δῐᾰ- (dĭă-)

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-

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Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃tisder.

Ancient Greek γνῶσις (gnôsis)

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Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)

Ancient Greek γνωστῐκός (gnōstĭkós)

Ancient Greek δῐαγνωστῐκός (dĭagnōstĭkós)bor.

English diagnostic

From Ancient Greek διαγνωστικός (diagnōstikós), adjective from διαγιγνώσκω (diagignṓskō, “to distinguish, diagnose”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɑ.stɪk/

  • Audio (Texas):

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˌdaɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tɪk/
• (Australia) IPA^(key): /dɑe.əɡˈnɔs.tɪk/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /daɪ.əɡˈnɒs.tək/, [dɑe̯.əɡˈnɔ̟s.tək]

Adjective

diagnostic (comparative more diagnostic, superlative most diagnostic)

1. Of, or relating to diagnosis.
2. (medicine) Characteristic of a particular disease.
3. Serving to indicate or specify a particular item or thing within a group of similar things.
   • 2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, volume 41, number 7, →DOI, →ISSN, page 10:

     Each language has its own distinct phonological qualities which a counter can tap into with effect. It is not necessarily specific phonemes (though these can sometimes be diagnostic), but rather the frequency and phonotactic distribution of each disparate set of phonemes that go together in the speech stream in certain recognisable ways.

4. (education) Intended to assess a student's preexisting knowledge on the material being taught.

   A diagnostic assessment

5. (biology, of a skeletal or genetic feature) Characteristic of a particular taxon or clade.

Hyponyms

• pathognomonic

Derived terms

• adiagnostic
• autodiagnostic
• biodiagnostic
• clinicodiagnostic
• coprodiagnostic
• cytodiagnostic
• diagnostically
• diagnosticate
• diagnosticity
• diagnostic overshadowing
• electrodiagnostic
• eudiagnostic
• histodiagnostic
• immunodiagnostic
• intradiagnostic
• iridodiagnostic
• misdiagnostic
• multidiagnostic
• nanodiagnostic
• neurodiagnostic
• nondiagnostic
• phytodiagnostic
• postdiagnostic
• prediagnostic
• psychodiagnostic
• self-diagnostic
• serodiagnostic
• subdiagnostic
• telediagnostic
• transdiagnostic
• undiagnostic
• xenodiagnostic

Translations

of, or relating to diagnosis

• Belarusian: дыягнасты́чны (dyjahnastýčny)
• Bulgarian: диагности́чен (diagnostíčen)
• Catalan: diagnòstic (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: diagnostický (cs)
• Danish: diagnostisk
• Dutch: diagnostisch (nl)
• Esperanto: diagnoza
• Finnish: diagnostinen
• French: diagnostique (fr)
• German: diagnostisch (de)
• Greek: διαγνωστικός (el) (diagnostikós)
• Hindi: नैदानिक (hi) (naidānik)
• Hungarian: diagnosztikai (hu)
• Italian: diagnostico (it)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diagnostisk

  Nynorsk: diagnostisk

• Polish: diagnostyczny (pl)
• Portuguese: diagnóstico (pt)
• Romanian: de diagnoză, de diagnostic
• Russian: диагности́ческий (ru) (diagnostíčeskij)
• Spanish: diagnóstico (es)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: tanılayıcı, tanısal, teşhise ait, teşhisle alakalı/ilgili
• Ukrainian: діагности́чний (diahnostýčnyj)

Noun

diagnostic (plural diagnostics)

1. Any technique used in medical diagnosis.
2. (computing) Any tool or technique used to find the root of a problem.
3. That by which anything is known; a symptom.

See also

• diagnostics

French

Etymology

From diagnostique.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /djaɡ.nɔs.tik/

• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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Noun

diagnostic m (plural diagnostics)

1. diagnosis

Derived terms

• diagnostiquer

Further reading

• “diagnostic”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Romanian

Alternative forms

• диагностик (diagnostic) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

Etymology

Borrowed from French diagnostic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (prescribed) /di.aɡˈnos.tik/, (most common) /djaɡˈnos.tik/
• Rhymes: -ostik
• Hyphenation: di‧ag‧nos‧tic, di‧a‧gnos‧tic

Noun

diagnostic n (plural diagnostice)

1. (medicine) diagnosis

   Synonym: diagnoză

2. (computing) diagnostic

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	diagnostic	diagnosticul	diagnostice	diagnosticele
genitive-dative	diagnostic	diagnosticului	diagnostice	diagnosticelor
vocative	diagnosticule		diagnosticelor

Related terms

• diagnostica
• diagnostician

Further reading

• “diagnostic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026