On 30 Jun 2006 at 8:55, Oleg Kobchenko said:
> What does -adic mean in Greek?
"-ad" represents a suffix which can be attached to a word to denote a
collective or "set". For example, "dyad" and "triad" meaning "set of
two", "set of three". "Monad" is sort-of "set of one". The same suffix
turns up in, for example, "Iliad" ("collection of tales about Troy") and
"Olympiad" ("period of four years between Olympic games").
"-ic" represents another suffix meaning roughly "having the property of".
Note that "-ic" is the Latinised spelling and a truncation: in Greek
there would be a gender/case ending ("-ikos", for example).
FWIW, I think that "anadic" makes no sense at all in terms of Greek,
since "an-" is a prefix (conveying the meaning "not"), rather than a
numeral (as in monad, dyad, etc). However, my Greek is extremely rusty.
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