Word origin
[1830–40; ‹ Gk
toreutikós, equiv. to
toreú(
ein) to bore, chase, emboss (v. deriv. of
toreús graving tool) +
-tikos -tic]This word is first recorded in the period 1830–40. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: baby talk, format, nationalism, rococo, showcase-tic is a suffix, equivalent in meaning to -ic, occurring in adjectives of Greek origin (analytic), used esp. in the formation of adjectives from nouns with stems in -sis. Other words that use the affix -tic include: ascetic, ecliptic, hypnotic, peripatetic, periphrastic