Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗suffix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryCreating or causing something. · Very; extremely; forming adjectives from nouns.
Etymology tree Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -(i)ficuslbor. English -ific Learned borrowing from Latin -(i)ficus. By surface analysis, -ify + -ic.
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