-onic


  1. a suffix used in forming names of acids, especially carboxylic acids obtained by oxidation of aldoses: gluconic acid.

Origin of -onic

1
Perhaps generalized from lactonic acid as translation of German Lactonsäure;see lactose, -one, -ic

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