Where does “entropic” come from?

Entropic derives from English entropy plus the suffix -ique from French, -icus from Latin, and -kos from Proto-Indo-European, an ancient adjectival suffix.

entropic (English): Of, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy

Definitions

Of, pertaining to, or as a consequence of entropy

Ancestry of “entropic”, step by step

entropic traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via French entropique

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	French	entropique	entropic
2	French	entropie	entropy
3	German	Entropie	entropy
4	Ancient Greek	τροπή	a turning; turning away the enemy, a rout;...
5	Ancient Greek	-ή	suffix of feminine nouns in the [[Appendix:Ancient Greek first declension
6	Ancient Greek	-ᾱ	nominal suffix
7	Proto-Indo-European	-éh₂	—

via English entropy

Step	Language	Word	Meaning
1	English	entropy	strictly thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the...

Words derived from “entropic”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -éh₂ →Every word from Ancient Greek -ή →Every word from Ancient Greek τροπή →