-adic

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-adic

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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.

suffix

morpheme Having a specified adicity.
Similar: -ary
morpheme, of a topology on a module M over a ring R Such that the sets x+Iⁿᴹ (where x∈M, n a non-negative integer) form a basis for the topology.

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suffix having a number of arguments

Français	-adique
Deutsch	-adisch
Italiano	-adico
Română	-adic

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@misc{adic_2026,
  title = {-adic},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/-adic},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}