| 释义 |
-ician|ɪʃən|
a compound suffix, in F. -icien, consisting of -ian (ME. and F. -ien), added to names of arts or sciences in L. -ica, F. -ique, Eng. -ic, -ics, to denote a person skilled in the art or science; e.g. arithmetic-ian, logic-ian, magic-ian, music-ian, physic-ian, rhetoric-ian; mathematic-ian, mechanic-ian, optic-ian, politic-ian, statistic-ian, tactic-ian; sometimes formed by analogy on names not ending in -ic (though there may be an adj. in -ic), as academ-ician, algebr-ician, geometr-ician, Hebr-ician: cf. also patrician, f. L. patrici-us.
The termination goes back to 12th c. in OF. (where it was merely a case of the usual suffix -ien as in astrolog-ien, astronom-ien): thus 12th c. physicien, 13th c. logicien, 14th c. mathematicien, musicien. In Eng. fisicien is known c 1225, magicyen c 1380, musicien, rethoricien c 1425, logycien c 1475. Extended formations, with suffix -er, are musician-er (now obs. or vulgar), and practition-er for practicianer (F. practicien). |