-ac

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 250 words | Copyright

-ac suffix primarily of adjs. denoting ‘pertaining to’, formerly -aque, -ack(e), -ak(e), repr. ult. (through L. -acus) Gr. -akós, as in kardiakós CARDIAC, on the model of which others were formed at various periods. Cf. -ACAL.

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