DictionaryRoot: -ic
English
-ic
connected with or characteristic of
Forms
- -ic
Origin
Through French and Latin -icus from Greek -ikos.
Note
It can indicate a field, a material, a resemblance, or a tendency; it has no single literal meaning in every word.
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adjective / noun
alcoholic
Containing or associated with alcohol.
Etymology
Arabic al-kuḥl named a fine cosmetic powder. The word broadened to refined or distilled substances and eventually the spirit in drinks; -ic describes something containing or associated with that alcohol.
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