The story
- Latin · learned borrowing fromamplificātus
- English todayamplificate
Learned borrowing from Latin amplificātus, passive perfect participle of amplificō (“I enlarge, amplify”). Also an independent back-formation from amplification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish amplificar and Italian amplificare.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.