-ic

suffix

/ɪk/CA/ək/

Etymology

From Middle English -ik, from Old French -ique, from Latin -icus, from Proto-Indo-European *-kos, *-ḱos, formed with the i-stem suffix *-i- and the adjectival suffix *-kos, *-ḱos. Compare Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós), Sanskrit -इक (-ika) and Old Church Slavonic -ъкъ (-ŭkŭ). Doublet of -y; compare also -ac. Proto-Indo-European *-kos on noun stems carried the meaning 'characteristic of, like, typical, pertaining to', and on adjectival stems it acted emphatically.

derived from *-kos✻
derived from -icus
derived from -ique
inherited from -ik

Definitions

1
Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning “of or pertaining to”.
- Cyril + -ic → Cyrillic
- acid + -ic → acidic
Used to denote certain chemical compounds in which a specified chemical element has a…
Used to denote 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. For example sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄) has more oxygen atoms per molecule than sulphurous acid (H₂SO₃).

The neighborhood

neighbor-adic
neighbor-ical
neighbor-ician
neighbor-ics
neighbor-al
neighbor-an
neighbor-ar
neighbor-ate
neighbor-ese
neighbor-esque
neighbor-ian
neighbor-id

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for -ic. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA