411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Indic
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
indic índic
English
Etymology
en :bor la:Indicus 1
From en la Indicus from en grc Ἰνδικός, from 1 grc Ἰνδία -ικός. en India -ic. en indigo.
Pronunciation
en /ˈɪndɪk/ RP,GA
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Indic.wav US
en ɪndɪk 2
Adjective
Relating to or denoting the group of Indo-European languages comprising Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages which are its descendants.
en Indo-Aryan
Relating to the Brahmic scripts.
Pertaining to India or its people, culture and languages; Indian.
en 2003 Sushil Mittal Surprising Bedfellows: Hindus and Muslims in Medieval and Early Modern India Lexington Books 9780739106730 38 Clearly, men like ʿAin al-Mulk and Aravit Rama Raja could not have migrated successfully between the predominantly Islamicate world of Bijapur and Golconda and the more Indic world of Vijayanagara had they not been proficient in Telugu or Kannada as well as in Dakhni or Persian.
en 2014-01-01 Susan L. Huntington; John C. Huntington The Art of Ancient India: Buddhist, Hindu, Jain Motilal Banarsidass 9788120836174 16 Quite different in style from the red stone torso, it also shows links to later Indic art (Fig. 2.5). Found at Mohenjo-Daro in one of the later strata, this small image is probably of a date late in the history of the site.
en 2022-02-19 Deepak Jena Decoding India FanatiXx Publication 138 Indic philosophy, on the other hand, divides people into three groups, as it has two separate definitions for Dharma and religion.
en 12 Dec 2025 Tom Hercules Davies Horses, Wheels, Languages: Greek, Mesopotamian and Indic Epic on the Eurasian Steppe The Classical Quarterly 75 1 4 The Greek poem shares more with its Indic than with its Mesopotamian counterpart.
Derived terms
en Indic script
Translations
relating to modern Indian languages
Dutch: nl Indo-Arisch
Polish: pl indyjski
Russian: ru инди́йский
Spanish: es índico
Proper noun
en linguistics A branch of the Indo-European family of languages comprising Sanskrit and its modern descendants such as Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, and Punjabi.
en Indo-Aryan
en 1986 Margie J. Cunningham O'Bryan The History and Development of the Verbal System of Early Middle Indic
en 1983 Philip Baldi An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages SIU Press 9780809310913 51 Second, it is the only group that directly attests to a period of common development between two branches of the Indo-European family, namely, Indic and Iranian.
en 2008-11-13 Andrew L Sihler New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin Oxford University Press 9780199888306 Similar transfers in Indic are fewer in number owing to the early loss of the aor.: for example, the pres. cayate 'notices' (aoristic root ci-, PIE *kʷey) is in origin the subj. of root aorist ácet, and displaces the earlier redup. Pres cikéṣi (AV), imperf. áciket (RV).
Translations
the Indic language group Indo-Aryan
Anagrams
en cdiin Cindi dinic
en Language families India