Relating to or resembling cheese, or containing casein.
From Latin 'caseus' (cheese) + English suffix '-ic' (having qualities of). The word emerged in the 19th century as chemistry developed specialized terms for protein-related compounds.
The word 'caseic' is almost never used anymore, but it's a linguistic fossil showing how scientists tried to organize every chemical compound with neat Latin-based categories before modern chemistry simplified the naming system.
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