adic
adjective
adic is an adjective meaning “Relating to adicity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-D-I-C, and it appears about once in every 10 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does adic mean?
adjective
- 1
Relating to adicity
- 2
Carrying the I-adic topology for some ideal I of the ring.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce adic?
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame--adic.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame--adic.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-adic.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
How common is adic?
Adic appears about once in every 10 million words in written English, the 94,827th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Adic in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense having a number of arguments:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | -adique |
| German | -adisch |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does adic come from?
Back-formation from monadic, etc., from Ancient Greek -άς (-ás) (genitive -άδος (-ádos)) + -ικός (-ikós) (English -ad + -ic). Compare related adicity and Latinate -ary. The algebraic sense is by analogy with p-adic, since ℤ₍ₚ₎ equipped with the (p)-adic topology passes to the ring of p-adic numbers under the operation of completion.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).