The story
- Latin · learned borrowing frompācificāt-
- English todaypacificate
Learned borrowing from Latin pācificāt-, the past participial stem of pācificō. Also sometimes an independent back-formation from pacification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Portuguese and Spanish pacificar and Italian pacificare.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.