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).

—Ruakh_TALK 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)

Redlinks

Moved from the soon-to-be-deleted "derived terms" section (but not necessarily derived from this):

• bimetallistic
• columnistic
• dynamistic
• gongoristic
• haggadistic
• hypernationalistic
• introspectionistic
• nomistic
• obstructionistic
• progressivistic
• regionalistic
• reunionistic
• tropistic
• veristic

- -sche (discuss) 04:35, 24 March 2017 (UTC)

RFC discussion: December 2010–March 2017

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-istic

The table of derived terms needs merging into the category Category:English words suffixed with -istic. — lexicógrafa | 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)