tic

tic

See also: TIC, Tic, and -tic

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French tic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪk
• Homophone: tick

Noun

tic (plural tics)

1. (neurology) A sudden, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
   • 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     Tourette syndrome is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by multiple tics. A tic is a sudden, rapid, repetitive, non-rhythmic movement (e.g. eye blinking) or vocalization (e.g. throat clearing).

2. (by extension) Something that is done or produced habitually or characteristically.
   • 2017 January 19, Peter Bradshaw, “T2 Trainspotting review – choose a sequel that doesn't disappoint”, in the Guardian‎:

     Boyle revives some of the stylistic tics which found themselves being ripped off by geezer-gangster Britflicks back in the day, but now the freezeframes are briefer, sharper; the movie itself refers back to the original with variant flashback versions of famous scenes, but also Super 8-type images of the boys’ poignant boyhood in primary school.

3. (abbreviation, informal) ticket

Translations

local and habitual convulsive motion

Bulgarian: тик m (tik) Catalan: tic m Chinese: Mandarin: 抽搐 (zh) (chōuchù) Czech: tik (cs) m Dutch: tic (nl) m Esperanto: tiko Finnish: nykimisoire French: tic (fr) m German: Tic (de) m, Zucken (de) n, nervöses Zucken n Japanese: チック (chikku) Macedonian: тик m (tik) Polish: tik (pl) Portuguese: tique (pt), cacoete (pt) Russian: тик (ru) m (tik), не́рвный тик m (nérvnyj tik), подёргивание (ru) n (podjórgivanije) Spanish: tic m Swedish: ryckning (sv) Urdu: حرکی‎ f (harki)

Verb

tic (third-person singular simple present tics, present participle ticcing, simple past and past participle ticced)

1. (intransitive) To exhibit a tic; to undergo a sudden, semi-voluntary muscle movement.
   • 2020, Andrea E. Cavanna, Pharmacological Treatment of Tics, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 9:

     Patients often describe the need to tic as the mounting of inner tension, localized either to the body region where the tic is about to occur or throughout the body.

Translations

to undergo a muscle movement

Esperanto: tiki Maori: timu, tumu

Further reading

• tic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• CTI, ICT, TCI, cit, cit.

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Acholi

Noun

tic

1. work

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Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈtik/

Noun

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic

Further reading

• “tic” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
• “tic”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “tic” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

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French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tik/

• (file)

• Homophone: tique

Noun

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic

Descendants

• → English: tic
• → German: Tic
• → Portuguese: tique

Further reading

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

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtik/[1]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Hyphenation: tìc

Noun

tic m (invariable)

1. tic, twitch

References

1. tic in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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Latvian

Verb

tic

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of ticēt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of ticēt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of ticēt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of ticēt

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Romanian

Noun

tic n (plural ticuri)

1. Obsolete form of spic.

Declension

Declension of tic

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) tic	ticul	(niște) ticuri	ticurile
genitive/dative	(unui) tic	ticului	(unor) ticuri	ticurilor
vocative	ticule		ticurilor

References

• tic in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

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Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtik/ [ˈt̪ik]
• Rhymes: -ik
• Syllabification: tic

Noun

tic m (plural tics)

1. tic (movement)
2. tick (written mark)
3. tick (sound)

Related terms

• tictac/tic-tac
• tictaquear

Further reading

• “tic”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tic. Attested since 1885.

Noun

tic n

1. (neurology, chiefly in the plural) a tic
2. (colloquial, figuratively, chiefly in the plural) (unreasonable) compulsory behavior, a tic

Declension

Declension of tic
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	tic	ticet	tics	ticsen
Genitive	tics	ticets	tics	ticsens

References

• tics in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tics in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tic in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)