of or concerned with ammonia or ammonium compounds
Derived forms
ammonical (amˈmonical)
adjective
ammonic in American English
(əˈmɑnɪk; əˈmoʊnɪk)
adjective
of or from ammonia or ammonium
ammonic in American English
(əˈmɑnɪk, əˈmounɪk)
adjective
of or pertaining to ammonia or ammonium
Also: ammonical
Word origin
[1865–70; ammon(ia) + -ic]This word is first recorded in the period 1865–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: dunk, figure skating, goulash, tick-tack-toe, valence-ic is a suffix forming adjectives from other parts of speech, occurring originally inGreek and Latin loanwords (metallic; poetic; archaic; public) and, on this model, used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular senses“having some characteristics of” (opposed to the simple attributive use of the basenoun) (balletic; sophomoric); “in the style of” (Byronic; Miltonic); “pertaining to a family of peoples or languages” (Finnic; Semitic; Turkic)