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*The [[Modern English]] [[adjectival]] [[Affix|suffix]] -ic was first seen as a suffix in English during the [[Middle English]] period. It was borrowed in words from [[Old French]] '-ique', which came from [[Latin]] '-icus', which came ultimately from [[Ancient Greek]] '-ικος (-ikos)'. There are some that contend that '-icus' was native to Latin and was [[cognate]] with rather than borrowed from Greek. At any rate, the suffix -icus was very wide-spread by the [[Classical Latin]] period in native words as well as in words derived from Greek. {{Fact|date=August 2007}}
*It is also used in [[chemistry]] to denote certain [[chemical compound]]s in which a specified [[chemical element]] has a higher [[oxidation number]] than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix [[-ous]]. See [[Inorganic nomenclature]].
[[Category:Inorganic chemistry|Ic]]
[[Category:Greek suffixes|Ic]]
[[Category:Latin suffixes|Ic]]