Hectic…ic ic ic….

ETYMOLOGY ONLNE

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=hectic 

Many of these words ending in ic come from mediaeval French then from Latin and finally Greek.And to think we are all using these words daily

Adjective

Sense of “feverishly exciting, full of disorganized activity” is from 1904 and was a vogue word at first, according to Fowler, but hectic also was used in Middle English as a noun meaning “feverish desire, consuming passion” (early 15c.). Related: Hecticness.