-atico

See also: -ático, ático, and atiço

Italian

Etymology

Most likely inherited from Latin -āticus. Doublet of -aggio, from Old Occitan or Old French.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈa.ti.ko/
  • Rhymes: -atiko
  • Hyphenation: -à‧ti‧co

Suffix

-atico (adjective-forming suffix, feminine -atica, masculine plural -atici, feminine plural -atiche)

  1. used to derive adjectives with a meaning of “of, pertaining to”
    iniziare (to initiate) + -aticoiniziatico (initiatory)
    magma + -aticomagmatico (magmatic)

Derived terms

Italian terms suffixed with -atico

Further reading

  • Charles H. Grandgent (1927) “Phonology”, in From Latin to Italian: An Historical Outline of the Phonology and Morphology of the Italian Language, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, →DOI, page 90.
  • Suzanne Fleischman (1976) “The Apennine Penninsula and Sardinia”, in Cultural and Linguistic Factors in Word Formation: An Integrated Approach to the Development of the Suffix -age (University of California Publications in Linguistics; 86), Berkeley: University of California Press, →ISBN, pages 240-241.

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation

Suffix

-āticō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of -āticus
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