[‹ Gk hēbētikós, equiv. to hēbēt(e᷄s) adult (hēbē-, var. s. of hēbân to reach puberty, v. deriv. of hēbē youth + -tēs agent suffix) + -ikos -ic]-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)