Etymology

-ific

-if·ic

Today it means: Creating or causing something. Full definition →

Latin -ficus
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  1. Latin · learned borrowing from-ficus
  2. Latin · learned borrowing from-ficus
  3. English today-ific

Learned borrowing from Latin -(i)ficus. By surface analysis, -ify + -ic.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.