criterion

Etymology
From, from , from , from ; see critic.

Noun

 * 1) A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.

Usage notes

 * The plural form also exists, but is much less common.
 * The form is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria, this criteria, and so on), with corresponding plural form . In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: criteriu
 * Azerbaijani:, mizan, kriteri
 * Belarusian: крытэ́рый, ме́рыва, ме́рка
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:, kriterium
 * Danish: kriterium
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: kriterio
 * Estonian: kriteerium
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: კრიტერიუმი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: κριτήριον
 * Hebrew: קרִיטֶרִיוֹן
 * Hindi:, मापदंड
 * Hungarian:, ,
 * Icelandic: greinimark
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 判断基準
 * Kazakh: өлшемшарт, өлшем
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: میزان, کریتێر, پێوەر
 * Northern Kurdish: ,
 * Kyrgyz: критерий
 * Latvian: kritērijs
 * Lithuanian: kriterijus
 * Macedonian: критериум
 * Malayalam:
 * Maori: paearu
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: kriterium
 * Pashto: معيار
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: slat-tomhais
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: ме̏рило, мје̏рило, критеријум
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: kritérium
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: panuntunan
 * Tajik:
 * Turkish:, ,
 * Ukrainian:, міри́ло
 * Urdu: مِعْیار
 * Uyghur: ئۆلچەم
 * Uzbek:, ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh: maen prawf

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) criterion