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In many cases the actual suffix is "-ic" which means "like". Thus patriot-ic is patriot-like andidiot-ic is idiot-like. There are words derived from Greek words ending in -tikon which have been brought into English with the ending -tic such as semiotic or narcotic. Words like patriotic have been assimilated to the Greek model.

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