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‐ical

音節‐i・cal 発音記号/ɪk(ə)l/

【接尾辞】

「…に関する」「…の(ような)」の意の形容詞語尾.

用例

geometrical (geometric ＜geometry). musical ( ＜music).

Wiktionary英語版

-ical

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2011/04/04 19:50 UTC 版)

語源

Combination of -ic French -ique, from Latin -icus, related to Ancient Greek suffix -ικός (-ikos), plus -al from Latin adjective suffix -alis, or French -el.

接尾辞

-ical

1. Used to form adjectives from nouns with the meaning "of or pertaining to"; adjectival suffix appended to various words, often nouns, to make an adjective form. Often added to words of Latin origin, but used with other words also.

   mythical

   theistical

   whimsical

使用する際の注意点

Often redundant to the use of -ic alone; for example, mythic and mythical are identical in meaning. For words that naturally end in -ic such as magic and statistic, the addition is only of -al.