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-eticsuff. 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] MedicalSeeetic |