-ics

-ics

See also: ics, ICs, ICS, I.C.s, and I. C.s

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icuslbor.

Old French -iquebor.

Middle English -ik

English -ic

Old English -as

Middle English -es

English -s

English -ics

From -ic (“related or pertaining to”), with usage in the plural in imitation of the Latin and Greek usage.

Suffix

-ics (noun-forming suffix, uncountable)

Forms nouns referring to fields of knowledge or practice.
Synonyms: -istics, -logy, -s
Forms nouns referring to activities.

Derived terms

English terms suffixed with -ics

anthropophonics

astroballistics

electroballistics

electrocalorics

electrogravitics

glycolipidomics

magnetocalorics

microballistics

sphingolipidomics

Translations

fields of knowledge or practice

Arabic: ـِيَّات f pl (-iyyāt)
Czech: -ika, -ie
Esperanto: -iko (eo), -scienco
Finnish: -iikka
French: -ique (fr)
Galician: -ica f
German: -ik (de)
Hungarian: -ika
Interlingua: -ica
Japanese: -学 (ja) (がく, gaku, literally “study”), -論 (ja) (ろん, ron, literally “theory”)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: -ikk m
Polish: -yka f, -ika f
Russian: -ика (-ika)
Swedish: -tik
Ukrainian: -ика f (-yka), -́іка f (-́ika)
Welsh: -eg (cy) f

Anagrams

CIS, CIs, CSI, SCI, SIC, Sci., cis, cis-, sci, sci., sic