Morpheme
-etic
Type
suffix
Denotation
adjective suffix denoting “pertaining to, characterized by, having the nature of”
Etymology
Ancient Greek -ētikós, from -tós + -sis + -ikós
Evidence
anesthetic, antithetical, antiemetic, aphetic, choleretic, diegetic, docetic, eidetic, epenthetic, esthetic, genetic, genetics, genetically, heretic, hermetic, homiletic, hypothetic, hypothetical, mimetic, nemetic, noetic, pathetic, pathogenetic, phonetic, phonetics, prosthetic, sympathetic, synthetic, threnetic, zetetic
