-etic


-etic

suff. Used to form adjectives usually from nouns ending in -esis, as in aphaeretic from aphaeresis.
[Latin -eticus, from Greek -etikos, from -etos, verbal adj. suff.]

et•ic

(ˈɛt ɪk)

adj. of or pertaining to the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as functional units within a system. Compare emic. [1950–55]

-etic

an adjective suffix, equivalent in meaning to -ic, occurring in loanwords from Greek (eidetic), and in a few analogous Latin or English formations (splenetic; phenetic). [< Latin -ēticus < Greek -ētikos]