See Also: ical(dictionary)
ical(dictionary)

ical (iou)



-ical suffix.
In adjectives from late or medieval Latin words in -icalis (formed by adding -alis to nouns in -icus or -ice), as clerical, grammatical, or formed directly in English from nouns in -ic, Latin adjectives in -icus, & French adjectives in -ique, as domestical, fanatical, philosophical, theoretical: see -AL1. To many adjectives in -ical there corresponds another in -ic, that in -ical usually being the earlier and the more commonly used.
In compound suffixes, as -OLOGICAL.