English
franklinic
From Franklin + -ic, as a parallel to voltaic in honor of Benjamin Franklin's research on electricity.
Formed from Franklin + -ic
Frankish *Frankō ‘Frank’
Old French fraunc ‘free’
Anglo-Norman fraunclein ‘a landowner of free, but not noble birth’
Middle English frankelein ‘freeholder’
English Franklin
The story
Coined by William Whewell in 1840.
Today it means
adj Relating to the electricity from a machine, rather than from a redox reaction.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / franklinic