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).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icusbor. Spanish -ico Borrowed from Latin -icus, which forms adjectives of belonging or origin from a noun.
köken: Borrowed from German -isch. The native Dutch cognates are -s, earlier -sch. The pronunciation /is/ is due to an earlier pronunciation standard, by which all German vowels were to be tense. (The contemporary German standard pronunciation is /ɪʃ/.) More at -ish.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Portuguese -ico Learned borrowing from Latin -icus, which forms adjectives of belonging or origin, from Proto-Indo-European *-ikos, *-iḱos.
adjective-forming suffix denoting origin from a country/region/national group · adjective-forming suffix denoting relation or a specific member of a collective noun · adjective-forming suffix denoting a characteristic of an abstract noun
köken: When denoting origin/properties/collective nouns, inherited from Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós). Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós) under the semantic influence of Latin -icus when used for forming science/art-denoting nouns.
of or pertaining to; belonging to; derived from; connected with: -ic, -ish · used to form some substantivized nouns from other nouns
eş: -ānus, -ēnsis
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icus From i-stem + -cus, occurring in some original cases and later used freely. Cognate with Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós), Proto-Germanic *-igaz (Old High German and Old English -ig, Gothic -𐌴𐌹𐌲𐍃 (-eigs)), Sanskrit -इक (-ika), Proto-Slavic *-ьcь.
aile: -āticus, -ticus
cīvis (“citizen”) + -icus → cīvicus (“civic; pertaining to citizens”)
Gallus (“a Gaul; Gallic”) + -icus → gallicus (“of or pertaining to Gaul or the Gauls; Gallic, Gaulish”)
bellum (“war”) + -icus → bellicus (“of war; military; warlike”)
köken: From English -ic, 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.
An adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form denoting origination or having a quality: -an, -ic · A surname suffix in the northern (mountainous) part of Georgia
გმირი (gmiri, “hero”) + -ული (-uli) → გმირული (gmiruli, “heroic”)
არაბი (arabi, “Arab”) + -ული (-uli) → არაბული (arabuli, “Arabic”)
ადმინისტრაცია (adminisṭracia, “administration”) + -ული (-uli) → ადმინისტრაციული (adminisṭraciuli, “administrative”)
köken: Borrowed from English -ic, 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.
Related to, in the manner of, of. Ending for all adjectives in Esperanto. · Belonging to, of. Ending for all possessive pronouns in Esperanto. · Used to form the ordinal numeral.
köken: From feminine singular adjectives (and nouns) of the Romance languages, such as French ma, Italian mia, Spanish mía, fría.
-ic, -ory, -ian; Used to create adjectives from nouns, primarily of Latin and Greek origin · -ly, -like; Used to create adverbs from nouns, primarily of Latin and Greek origin
köken: Inherited from Dutch -isch, from German -isch.
Inherited from Middle French -ique, from Old French -ique, a learned borrowing from Latin -icus, from Proto-Italic *-ikos, from Proto-Indo-European *-ikos.