Relating to or characteristic of Asia or its peoples, cultures, and languages; an older or alternative form of 'Asiatic.'
From Asia (from Greek Asia, possibly from Akkadian asu 'east') plus the suffix -nic. This less common variant appears alongside 'Asiatic' in historical texts.
The term 'Asianic' shows how English had multiple words for the same thing—scholars debated which suffix (-nic vs. -tic) was more proper, a linguistic argument that left both words in the dictionary!
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