English
Etymology
Representing a combining form of Ancient Greek κεντρικός (kentrikós, “central”). Cognate with Bengali -কেন্দ্রিক (-kendrik)
Suffix
-centric
- Having a specified number of centres.
- Having a specified object at the centre, or as the focus of attention.
2012 June 26, Genevieve Koski, “Music: Reviews: Justin Bieber: Believe”, in The A.V. Club[1], archived from the original on 6 August 2020:When the staccato, Neptunes-ian single “Boyfriend” was released in March, musical prognosticators were quick to peg the album it portended, Believe, as Justin Bieber’s Justified, a grown-and-sexy, R&B-centric departure that evolved millennial teenybopper Justin Timberlake into one of the unifying pop-music figures of the aughts.
2021 November 17, Anthony Lambert, “How do we grow the leisure market?”, in RAIL, number 944, page 34:Decades of road-centric planning and policies have tilted the playing field strongly against public transport use.
Hyponyms
English terms suffixed with -centric
- CLI-centric
- Polonocentric
Translations
having a specified number of centres
having a specified object at the centre
- Afrikaans: -sentries
- Albanian: -centrik
- Aragonese: -centrico
- Asturian: -céntricu
- Azerbaijani: -sentrik
- Basque: -zentriko
- Belarusian: -цэнтры́чны (-centrýčny)
- Bulgarian: -центри́чен (-centríčen)
- Catalan: -cèntric
- Czech: -centrický
- Danish: -centrisk
- Dutch: -centrisch
- Esperanto: -centra
- Estonian: -tsentriline
- Finnish: -sentrinen
- French: -centrique
- Galician: -céntrico
- Georgian: -ცენტრული (-cenṭruli)
- German: -zentrisch
- Greek: -κεντρικός (-kentrikós)
- Hebrew: ־צֶנְטְרִי
- Hungarian: -centrikus, -központú (hu)
- Ido: -centrala
- Indonesian: -sentris
- Interlingua: -centric
- Italian: -centrico
- Latin: -centricus
- Latvian: -centrisks
- Lithuanian: -centrinis, -centriškas
- Luxembourgish: -zentresch
- Macedonian: -центричен (-centričen)
- Maltese: -ċentriku
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: -sentrisk
- Nynorsk: -sentrisk
- Occitan: -centric
- Polish: -centryczny
- Portuguese: -cêntrico
- Romanian: -centric
- Cyrillic: -чентрик (-centric)
- Russian: -центри́ческий (-centríčeskij)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: -цѐнтричан
- Roman: -cèntričan
- Slovak: -centrický
- Slovene: -centričen
- Spanish: -céntrico
- Swedish: -centrisk
- Tagalog: -sentriko
- Tajik: -сентрӣ (-sentri)
- Turkish: -santrik, -sentrik
- Ukrainian: -центри́чний (-centrýčnyj)
- Uzbek: -tsentrik
- Yiddish: ־צענטריש (-tsentrish)
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