Morpheme
-ician
Type
suffix
Denotation
Latin adjective suffix denoting “magistrate, sociolegal rank”
Etymology
Middle French -icien; Latin -icius, from -icus + -ius, from rebracketed <-i-> -cus and Old Latin -ios
Evidence
matrician, patrician
Notes
most words that end in -ician are <-ic + -i- + -an> or <-atic + -i- + -an>
