The story
- Latin · derived from-ficātiō
- Old French · derived from-ification
- Middle English · inherited from-ificacioun
- English today-ification
From Middle English -ificacioun (ending on words generally borrowed whole from Old French), from Old French -ification, in turn from Latin -ficātiō, a noun ending which appears on action nouns formed using the suffix -tiō (English -tion) from verbs ending in -ficō (English -ify). Compare -faction.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.