-ician
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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1996
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-ician as in
logician,
musician,
physician,
statistican,
tactician, repr. F.
-icien, L.
-iciānus, f. names of sciences in
-ica -IC(S) +
-iāanus -IAN.
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