[1875–80; ‹ Gk theîon sulfur + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1875–80. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: massage, musical chairs, neoclassic, pressure point, weekend-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)
Examples of 'thionic' in a sentence
thionic
The thiosemicarbazone coordinates to metal through the thionic sulfur and the azomethine nitrogen.
Salman A. Khan, Abdullah M. Asiri, Khalid Al-Amry, Maqsood Ahmad Malik 2014, 'Synthesis, Characterization, Electrochemical Studies, and In Vitro Antibacterial Activityof Novel Thiosemicarbazone and Its Cu(II), Ni(II), and Co(II) Complexes', The Scientific World Journalhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/592375. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)