Talk:-istic

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Is this really a suffix? I can't think of an example that couldn't just be a use of -ic (artistic could be a form of artist rather than art; realistic of realist rather than real...) bd2412 T 03:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)


 * On the one hand, I think it's a reasonable entry to have, if only because there are at least a few words in -istic that are much more common than their counterparts in -ist and -ism (e.g. "holistic", "heuristic"), and because it's worth noting that -istic is the primary way of adjectivizing nouns in -ist and -ism.


 * On the other hand, -istic is essentially a collocation of -ist and -ic, so we should apply our usual CFI for phrases: Does it use only specific senses of -ist and -ic? Does it have meaning beyond what its components imply? I'm really not sure.


 * If we do keep it, its etymology section should certainly mention both its connections to other English suffixes (-ist, -ism, -ic), and its Franco-Greco-Latin roots (-istique, -isticus, -istikos).


 * —RuakhTALK 06:39, 4 March 2007 (UTC)


 * Definitely keep. —Stephen 15:47, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Kept, also added -istical and -istically. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable could explain the "Franco-Greco-Latin roots (-istique, -isticus, -istikos)." bd2412 T 17:35, 9 March 2007 (UTC)


 * An example that is not simply -ist and -ic is logistic as in logistic regression, or a regression on logarithms. It functions to convert log into an adjective, without the term logist having a sense involving logarithms. -admdikramr, 10:02, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

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Moved from the soon-to-be-deleted "derived terms" section (but not necessarily derived from this): - -sche (discuss) 04:35, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

RFC discussion: December 2010–March 2017
The table of derived terms needs merging into the category Category:English words suffixed with -istic. — lexicógrafa &#124; háblame — 21:48, 31 December 2010 (UTC)


 * I've gone through some of them. Many aren't even derived from -istic. - -sche (discuss) 04:16, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
 * Done. - -sche (discuss) 05:58, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

-ist +‎ -ic, both adjective suffixes.
Yet, sometimes the form in -ist doesn't exist, hubristic --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:33, 10 January 2021 (UTC)