ontic

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ὄν (ón, “being, existing, essence”) (stem ὄντ- (ónt-)) +‎ -ic.

Adjective

ontic (comparative more ontic, superlative most ontic)

1. Ontological.
2. Pertaining to being, as opposed to pertaining to a theory of it (which would be ontological).
   • 2015, Bill Brown, Other Things, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN:

     My descriptions are ontical—addressing the world we inhabit, the what and where and how and why of objects therein; my questions are not ontological in the sense of struggling (vainly) to answer the question of the being of things tout court.

Derived terms

• ontically

Related terms

• ontological
• ontologist
• ontology

Translations

pertaining to being

• Afrikaans: onties
• French: ontique (fr)
• German: ontisch (de)
• Norwegian: ontisk
• Occitan: ontic
• Portuguese: ôntico (pt) m
• Russian: онти́ческий (ontíčeskij)

Anagrams

• tonic

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French ontique.

Adjective

ontic m or n (feminine singular ontică, masculine plural ontici, feminine and neuter plural ontice)

1. octic

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	ontic		ontică		ontici	ontice
	definite	onticul		ontica		onticii	onticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	ontic		ontice		ontici	ontice
	definite	onticului		onticei		onticilor	onticelor