-ic (disambiguation)

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Suffixes
-cide
-cycle
-cracy
-dom
-ic
-ism
-ist
-mania
-ography
-oid
-ology
-omics
-onomy
-onym
-philia
-phobia
-scope
-stan
-ville
-ware

-ic is an suffix used in chemistry to name certain chemical compounds in which a specified element has a higher oxidation number than in the equivalent compound whose name ends in the suffix -ous. See Inorganic nomenclature.

-ic (-ić, including diacritic), pronounced "itch" in Croatian/Bosnian/Serbian, means "son of" or "by" in surnames, for example Milosevic.

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