[1865–70; ‹ Gk enthetikós, equiv. to énthet(os) (verbid of entithénai to put in, equiv. to en- en-2 + tithénai to put) + -ikos -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: black belt, dunk, goulash, maverick, racism-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)