PRETTY  , a word usually applied in the sense of pleasing in See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, without connoting those qualities which are described as beautiful or handsome . In Old See also:

• ENGLISH

English praettig meant tricky, cunning or wily, and is thus used to translate the Latin sagax, aslutus, callidus,in a vocabulary of about roo0 . Praett meant a See also:

• TRICK

trick, and this word is seen in many forms in Dutch, cf. the words prettig, sportive, See also:

• PART

part, trick . A connexion has been suggested with the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek srpaicTu.6r, irpa-rrecv, to do, make, through Latin practice, practice, performance; but the New English See also:

• DICTIONARY

Dictionary rejects these, as also See also:

• CELTIC

Celtic See also:

• SOURCES

sources, as unfounded . From " cunning " to skilful, and thence to its use as a See also:

• TERM

term of See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general appreciation as is so often used by See also:

• PEPYS, SAMUEL (1633-1703)

Pepys, the development is easy .