What Does The Suffix Ic Mean?

The suffix –ic forms adjectives from other parts of speech. It occurs most originally in Greek and Latin loanwords like metallic; poetic; archaic etc. it is often used as an adjective-forming suffix with the particular sense of having some characteristics of'. This opposes the simple attributive use of the base noun, example- ballistic; sophomoric erc.
The suffix –ic is a noun suffix occurs chiefly in loanwords from Greek where words like critic; magic; music were originally adjectival.