english words ending with "ic"

Question

english word ending ith "ic" cognates with" ico" in spanish is this correct?

i.e traffic=traffico etc

Answer 1

Not all, but probably almost all of them. The ending -ic, indicating relationship, cause, nature and similarity, comes from Latin -icus through French, which has a tendency not to pronounce the end of the words, and this seems to be reflected in the English spelling, that ends in C to reflect the true sound. The same -icus ending ended up as -ico in Spanish, following Spanish' regular simplification of Latin.

You can find over 1000 words that follow this pattern, if you are willing to include very technical ones.