'ozonic' originates from English, specifically the word 'ozone' + the adjectival suffix '-ic', where 'ozone' ultimately comes from Greek 'ozein' which meant 'to smell'.

'ozone' was coined in the 1840s (from Greek 'ozein' via 19th-century scientific coinage), and the adjective 'ozonic' was formed later by attaching the suffix '-ic' to 'ozone', producing the modern English 'ozonic'.

Initially the root 'ozein' meant 'to smell', and 'ozone' came to name the triatomic oxygen with a characteristic smell; 'ozonic' evolved to mean 'relating to ozone' or 'resembling the smell of ozone'.