Runic

Alternative letter-case form of runic.

Adjective

  1. Alternative letter-case form of runic.

Origin

From rune + -ic, because such languages were written using runes.

Proper noun

  1. Any of the ancient Germanic languages which were written using runes.
    • So likewise a day comes when the Runic Thor, with his Eddas, must withdraw into dimness; and many an African Mumbo-Jumbo and Indian Pawpaw be utterly abolished. - 1831, Thomas Carlyle, “Symbols”, in Sartor Resartus: The...