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-fizieren
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German
Alternative forms
de -ficieren -fiziren -ficiren obsolete
Etymology
From Early Modern German de -ficieren, extracted by de 1 of borrowed Latin compound verbs with suffixes la -ficāre and la -ficere (and rarer la facere) + suffix de -ieren, such as:
de conficieren from de la conficio cōnficere
de justificieren from de la iustifico iūstificāre
de clarificieren from de la clarifico clārificāre
de inficieren from de la inficio īnficere
de putrificieren from de la putrefacio putrefacere
Compare it -ficare, fr -ifier and en -fy.
Pronunciation
de /iːrən/ [fiˈt͡siːʁən] [iːrən] [iː.ɐn] [iɐ̯n]
de iːʁən 3
de -fi zie ren
Suffix
de suffix verb-forming suffixes
Verb suffix: it and its inflected forms are found mainly as a rendering of the Latin suffixes in borrowings, but it is also sometimes applied with a factitive meaning to German stems.
de Elektrik electricity elektrifizieren to electrify
de Nazi Nazi nazifizieren to nazify
de Mumie mummy mumifizieren to mummify
Derived terms
de
Related terms
de -ieren
de -isieren
Further reading
-ifizieren