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-acsuff. Used to form adjectives from nouns: ammoniac. [New Latin -acus, from Greek -akos.]AC or A.C. 1. air conditioning. 2. Also, ac, a.c., alternating current. 3. before Christ. [< Latin ante Christum] Ac 1. acetate. 2. acetyl. Ac Chem. Symbol. actinium. ac- var. of ad- before c and qu: accede; acquire. -ac var. of -ic after Greek noun stems ending in i: cardiac; maniac. [< Latin -acus < Greek -akos] A/C or a/c, 1. account. 2. account current. 3. air conditioning. a.c. (in prescriptions) before meals. [< Latin ante cibum] EncyclopediaSeeAC-ac
-ac [L. -acus, Gr. -akos, adj. suffix] 1. A variant of the suffix -ic, used with Greek nouns whose stems end in -i, e, g., cardiac, from cardi- and maniac, from mani-.2. In pharmacology, a suffix designating an anti-inflammatory drug derived from acetic acid. ThesaurusSeeAc |