Etic Definition
ĕtĭk
adjective
Of or relating to features or items analyzed without considering their role as a structural unit in a system, as in behavioral science or linguistics.
American Heritage
(social sciences) Of or pertaining to analysis of a culture from a perspective situated outside all cultures.
Wiktionary
suffix
Used to form adjectives usually from nouns ending in -esis, as in aphaeretic from aphaeresis.
American Heritage
Origin of Etic
1962, Kenneth Lee Pike, With Heart and Mind: A Personal Synthesis of Scholarship and Devotion"Ž, page 37
From Wiktionary
Latin -eticus from Greek -etikos from -etos verbal adj. suff.
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Ultimately from Ancient Greek -ητικος (-etikos)
From Wiktionary
From (phon)etic
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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