Forms abstract nouns, typically of Latin/Greek stems as the counterpart to adjectives in -isch. · Forms nouns referring to schools of thought or movements. · Forms nouns describing a characteristic.
köken: Borrowed from Latin -icus and Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós).
🔊 pädagogisch (“pedagogical”) + -ik → Pädagogik (“pedagogy”)
🔊 kombinatorisch (“combinatory”) + -ik → Kombinatorik (“combinatorics”)
🔊 romantisch (“romantic”) + -ik → Romantik (“romanticism”)
forms adjectives from nouns: -ic, -ical, -ish, -ly
eş: -al, -aque, -eux, -ien
köken: Inherited from Middle French -ique, from Old French -ique, a learned borrowing from Latin -icus, from Proto-Italic *-ikos, from Proto-Indo-European *-ikos.
🔊 aéro- (“aero-”) + -naute (“-naut”) + -ique → aéronautique f (“aeronautics”)
Suffix appended to words to create a feminine noun, usually denoting a berry plant.
-ics, typically causing antepenultimate stress, or pentulimate stress colloquially
köken: Etymology tree Ancient Greek -ική (-ikḗ)lbor. Polish -ika Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek -ική (-ikḗ).
-ics (discipline, field of study)
köken: Derived from French -ique (in turn borrowed from Latin -icum) as substantivised feminine of the adjective.
🔊 акроба́т (akrobát) + -ика (-yka) → акроба́тика (akrobátyka)
🔊 інформа́ція (informácija) + -ика (-yka) → інформа́тика (informátyka)
-ics (suffix used to form names of fields of knowledge or practice)
köken: Internationalism, ultimately from Latin -icus, Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós).
aile: aritmetiikka, dramatiikka, dynamiikka, etiikka, fysiikka, genetiikka, heuristiikka, kinetiikka, komiikka, logiikka
a suffix denoting a branch of science or study, similar to -ics
aile: ekonomie, ekonometrie, pediatrie, psychometrie
Added to a noun to express smallness, youth, or endearment.
köken: From -i (diminutive suffix) + -ka (diminutive suffix).
🔊 láda (“box”) + -ika → ládika (“small box”)
a language, -ic, -ish · a science, a study, -y, -ics
köken: From Middle Welsh -eg, from Proto-Celtic *-ikā f.
🔊 Llydaw (“Brittany”) + -eg → Llydaweg (“Breton language”)
🔊 Gwyddel (“Irishman”) + -eg → Gwyddeleg (“Irish language”)
🔊 Indonesia (“Indonesia”) + -eg → Indoneseg (“Indonesian language”)