Etymology

suffice

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Today it means: To be enough or sufficient; to meet the need (of anything); to be adequate; to be good enough. Full definition →

Middle English suffisen ← Middle French souffire ← Latin sufficiō
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The story

  1. Latin · derived fromsufficiō“supply, be adequate”
  2. Middle French · derived fromsouffire
  3. Middle English · inherited fromsuffisen
  4. English todaysuffice

From Middle English suffisen, from Middle French souffire, from Latin sufficiō (“supply, be adequate”), from sub (“under”) + faciō (“do, make”). Cognate with French suffire.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.