-centric

See also: centric, cèntric, and -cèntric

English

Etymology

Representing a combining form of Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós, “central”). Cognate with Bengali -কেন্দ্রিক (-kendrik)

Suffix

-centric

1. Having a specified number of centres.
2. Having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention.
   • 2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2020:

     When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.

   • 2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 34:

     Decades of road-centric planning and policies have tilted the playing field strongly against public transport use.

Hyponyms

English terms suffixed with -centric

• CLI-centric
• Polonocentric

Translations

having a specified number of centres

• German: -zentrisch
• Hungarian: -centrikus, -középpontú
• Indonesian: -sentris

having a specified object at the centre

• Afrikaans: -sentries
• Albanian: -centrik
• Aragonese: -centrico
• Asturian: -céntricu
• Azerbaijani: -sentrik
• Basque: -zentriko
• Belarusian: -цэнтры́чны (-centrýčny)
• Bulgarian: -центри́чен (-centríčen)
• Catalan: -cèntric
• Czech: -centrický
• Danish: -centrisk
• Dutch: -centrisch
• Esperanto: -centra
• Estonian: -tsentriline
• Finnish: -sentrinen
• French: -centrique
• Galician: -céntrico
• Georgian: -ცენტრული (-cenṭruli)
• German: -zentrisch
• Greek: -κεντρικός (-kentrikós)
• Hebrew: ־צֶנְטְרִי
• Hungarian: -centrikus, -központú (hu)
• Ido: -centrala
• Indonesian: -sentris
• Interlingua: -centric
• Italian: -centrico
• Latin: -centricus
• Latvian: -centrisks
• Lithuanian: -centrinis, -centriškas
• Luxembourgish: -zentresch
• Macedonian: -центричен (-centričen)
• Maltese: -ċentriku
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: -sentrisk

  Nynorsk: -sentrisk

• Occitan: -centric
• Polish: -centryczny
• Portuguese: -cêntrico
• Romanian: -centric

  Cyrillic: -чентрик (-centric)

• Russian: -центри́ческий (-centríčeskij)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: -цѐнтричан

  Roman: -cèntričan

• Slovak: -centrický
• Slovene: -centričen
• Spanish: -céntrico
• Swedish: -centrisk
• Tagalog: -sentriko
• Tajik: -сентрӣ (-sentri)
• Turkish: -santrik, -sentrik
• Ukrainian: -центри́чний (-centrýčnyj)
• Uzbek: -tsentrik
• Yiddish: ־צענטריש (-tsentrish)