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-onic

-onic

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

Origin:
perhaps generalized from lactonic acid as translation of German Lactonsäure; see lactose, -one, -ic
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-onic is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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