Technic comes from Latin technicus, from Ancient Greek tekhnikos ('of or relating to art or skill'), from tekhnē ('art, craft, skill'). The historical chain includes Ancient Greek τεχνικός and Ancient Greek τέχνη. The quoted older senses, "of or relating to art or skill" and "art, craft, skill", supply the semantic anchors for technic. The formation is best read as borrowed: the word technic carries its older form-history into a compact English lexical shape. In present English it is used as a noun, "a technical method or skill; relating to technique". English derivatives include technics and technical; related English forms include technique, technical, and technology. The result is a noun and adj whose etymology preserves both the older form and the later English specialization.