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-tropic

-tropic suffix: turning or changing.

Suffix

-tropic

  1. Turning or changing.
  2. Affecting or attracted to the thing specified.
    • psycho- (“mind”) + -tropic (“altering”) → psychotropic (“mind-altering”)

Origin of -tropic

Borrowed from Ancient Greek τροπικός (tropikós, “of or pertaining to a turn or change; or the solstice; or a trope or figure; tropic; tropical; etc.”), from τροπή (tropḗ, “turn; solstice; trope”). Compare trope and tropic.

Questions about -tropic

What does -tropic mean?
-tropic means turning or changing.
What part of speech is -tropic?
-tropic is a suffix.

Words near -tropic in the dictionary

  1. -troph
  2. -trophic
  3. -trophism
  4. -trophy
  5. -tropia
  6. -tropic
  7. -tropin
  8. -tropism
  9. -tropy
  10. -tu-
  11. -Tube

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