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• etic
  etic

  adjective

  pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.
• -etic
  -etic

  a suffix used in the formation of adjectives.

etic

¹ American  

[et-ik] / ˈɛt ɪk /

adjective

Linguistics.

1. pertaining to or being the raw data of a language or other area of behavior, without considering the data as significant units functioning within a system.

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-etic ² American  

1. a suffix used in the formation of adjectives.

   eidetic.

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Etymology

Origin of etic¹

1950–55; extracted from phonetic; see emic

Origin of -etic²

< Latin -eticus, Greek -etikos, equivalent to -et-, a formative occurring in some nouns + -ikos -ic