The story
- Ancient Greek · borrowed fromὠτῐκός“of or for the ear”
- English todayotic
Mid 17th century borrowed from Ancient Greek ὠτῐκός (ōtĭkós, “of or for the ear”), from οὖς (oûs, “ear”) + -ῐκός (-ĭkós, “-ic”, adjectival suffix).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.