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Etymology tree Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dheh1-der. Proto-Italic *θakos Proto-Italic *-fakos Latin -ficus Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify From Middle English -ifien, from Old French -ifier, from Latin -ificāre, from -ficus, from faciō (“to make, do”). For example, purify from purificare, from purificus.

73 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Afrikaans: -ifiseer — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Afrikaans: -fiseer — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Albanian: -ifikoj — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Albanian: -fikoj — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Arabic: فَعَّلَ (faʕʕala) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Asturian: -ificar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Azerbaijani: -laşdırmaq — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Azerbaijani: -ləşdirmək — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Basque: -ifikatu — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Basque: -fikatu — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Belarusian: -іфікаваць (-ifikavacʹ) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Bulgarian: -ифицирам (-ificiram) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Catalan: -ificar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Chinese Cantonese: -化 (faa3) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hakka Chinese: -化 (fa) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Chinese: -化 (hoà) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Chinese Mandarin: -化 (-huà) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Czech: -ifikovat — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Czech: -fikovat — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Danish: -ificere — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Danish: -ficere — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Dutch: -ifiseren — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Dutch: -iseren — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Esperanto: -igi — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Finnish: -ntaa — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Finnish: -ntää — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Finnish: -staa — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Finnish: -stää — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Finnish: -ifioida — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Finnish: -fioida — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• French: -ifier — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Galician: -ificar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• German: -fizieren — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• German: -ifizieren — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Greek: -ποιώ (-poió) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -ifikál — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -ikál — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -ít — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -sít — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -esít — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -osít — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -ösít — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Hungarian: -asít — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Ido: -ifar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Ido: -ifikar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Interlingua: -ificar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Interlingua: -ficar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Italian: -ificare — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Italian: -ficare — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Korean: 화(化)하다 (-hwa-hada) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Latin: -ifico — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Maltese: -ifika — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Maltese: -fika — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Norwegian Bokmål: -ifisere — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Norwegian Bokmål: -fisere — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Norwegian Nynorsk: -ifisere — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Norwegian Nynorsk: -fisere — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Occitan: -ificar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Occitan: -ficar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Polish: -fikować — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Portuguese: -ificar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Romanian: -ifica — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Russian: -ифици́ровать (-ificírovatʹ) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Spanish: -ificar — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Swedish: -ifiera — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Swedish: -fiera — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Swedish: -ificera — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Swedish: -ficera — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Turkish: -laştırmak — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Turkish: -leştirmek — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Ukrainian: -ифікува́ти (-yfikuváty) — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Vietnamese: ... hoá — forms verbs meaning "to make"
• Yiddish: ־יפֿיצירן (-ifitsirn) — forms verbs meaning "to make"