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-onic

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

    gluconic acid.

Etymology

Origin of -onic

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

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