The story
- Ancient Greek · derived from-τῐκός
- English todayXenophontic
By surface analysis, Xenophon (“Greek historian and philosopher”) + -tic (adjectival suffix), though possibly derived from Ancient Greek, as suggested by the adjectival suffix being -tic (from Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós)), as opposed to -ic (from Latin -icus).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.