The story
- Latin · borrowed fromsuffīgō“to fasten onto”
- English todaysuffigation
From the present stem of Latin suffīgō (“to fasten onto”) + -ation. The formation on the Latin present stem is unusual; perhaps originally an innovation in German.
Words from the same roots
Latinsuffīgō all →
soffitsuffigal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.