## Meanings
1. A particular action or method planned to achieve a goal.
2. A move or method used to gain an advantage over an opponent, especially in battle or games.

## Examples
- Lowering prices was a clever tactic to attract new customers.
- The general's bold tactic caught the enemy completely off guard.

## Derived Forms
- counter-tactic
- countertactic
- intertactic

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: *teh₂g-
- Root: tactica
- Root: τακτικός

## Etymology
Borrowed from New Latin tactica, from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to order, to arrange”).

## AI Etymology
Tactic is borrowed from New Latin tactica, from Ancient Greek τακτικός (taktikós, “fit for ordering”), from τάσσω (tássō, “to order, to arrange”). Important recorded forms include *teh₂g- (Proto-Indo-European), tactica (la-new), and τακτικός (Ancient Greek). Current senses include a particular action or method planned to achieve a goal and a move or method used to gain an advantage over an opponent, especially in battle or games. The wider family includes derived forms such as counter-tactic, countertactic, and intertactic.

## Topics
- Verbs of Movement
- Word Formation & Derivatives

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