-ic
Encyclopedia : I : IC : IC : -ic
| Suffixes |
| -archy |
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| -cide |
| -cracy |
| -cycle |
| -gate |
| -hood |
| -ic |
| -illion |
| -ism |
| -ist |
| -kinesis |
| -mania |
| -nik |
| -graphy |
| -oid |
| -logy |
| -ome |
| -omics |
| -nomy |
| -onym |
| -ous |
| -phil- |
| -phob- |
| -phone |
| polis |
| -scope |
| -stan |
| Ville |
| -ware |
- The Modern English adjectival suffix -ic was first seen as a suffix in English during the Middle English period. It was borrowed in words from Old French '-ique', which came from Latin '-icus', which came ultimately from Ancient Greek '-ικοσ (-ikos)'. There are some that contend that '-icus' was native to Latin and was cognate with rather than borrowed from Greek. At any rate, the suffix -icus was very wide-spread by the Classical Latin period in native words as well as in words derived from Greek.
- It is also used in chemistry to denot certain chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a higher oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ous. See Inorganic nomenclature.
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