Borrowed from English -ic, French -ique, Italian -ico, Portuguese -ico, Spanish -ico, Russian -ик (-ik)
all ultimately from Latin -icum, from -icus.
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- forms nouns from nouns, denoting a person occupied with a science or study; -ic, -ician, -ian
- historia (“history”) + -ico → historico (“historian”)
- theoria (“theory”) + -ico → theorico (“theoretician”)
- The stressed syllable in words formed with -ico is the antepenult, i.e. the syllable prior to the suffix.
- A corresponding nominal suffix denoting a particular science or study is -ica while the corresponding adjectival suffix is -ic.
Category Interlingua terms suffixed with -ico not found
- Alexander Gode, Hugh E. Blair (1955) Interlingua: A Grammar of the International Language, →ISBN
From -ō suffixed to words with stems ending in -ic (including -icus), which was reinterpreted as part of the suffix.
-icō (present infinitive -icāre, perfect active -icāvī, supine -icātum); first conjugation
- forms regular first-conjugation verbs, sometimes with frequentative meaning
- fodiō + -icō → fodicō
- albus + -icō → albicō
1At least one use of the archaic "sigmatic future" and "sigmatic aorist" tenses is attested, which are used by Old Latin writers; most notably Plautus and Terence. The sigmatic future is generally ascribed a future or future perfect meaning, while the sigmatic aorist expresses a possible desire ("might want to"). It is also attested as having a rare sigmatic future passive indicative form ("will have been"), which is not attested in the plural for any verb.
2The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
-icō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of -icus
Learned borrowing from Latin -icus, which forms adjectives of belonging or origin, from Proto-Indo-European *-ikos, *-iḱos.
- IPA(key): (stressed on the antepenultimate syllable) /i.ku/
-ico (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ica, masculine plural -icos, feminine plural -icas)
- -ic; -ical (of or relating to [the suffixed noun])
-ico m (noun-forming suffix, plural -icos, feminine -ica, feminine plural -icas)
- irregular diminutive suffix, often forming new senses rather than semantic diminutives
- burro (“donkey”) + -ico → burrico (“small donkey”)
- verão (“summer”) + -ico → veranico (“Indian summer”)
Borrowed from Latin -icus, which forms adjectives of belonging or origin from a noun.
-ico (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -ica, masculine plural -icos, feminine plural -icas)
- forms adjectives from nouns; -ic
- fotografía (“photograph”) + -ico → fotográfico (“photographic”)
- The stress will fall on the syllable before the suffix (e.g. cuántico, with emphasis on /a/). Contrast Etymology 2, with stress on the suffix.
Related to Ladino -iko, which serves as the equivalent of -ito.
-ico m (noun-forming suffix, plural -icos)
- (Murcia, Granada, Navarre, Aragon, Cuba, Venezuela) usually pejorative diminutive suffix; forms nouns from nouns; replaces standard Spanish suffix -ito
- The stress falls on the first syllable of the suffix (e.g. marica, with emphasis on /i/). Contrast Etymology 1, with stress on the syllable preceding the suffix.