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.
köken: From Early Modern German -ficieren, extracted by rebracketing of borrowed Latin compound verbs with suffixes -ficāre and -ficere (and rarer facere) + suffix -ieren, such as: * conficieren from Latin cōnficere * justificieren from Latin iūstificāre * clarificieren from Latin clārificāre * inficieren from Latin īnficere * putrificieren from Latin putrefacere Compare Italian -ficare, French -ifier…
Elektrik (“electricity”) + -fizieren → elektrifizieren (“to electrify”)
Nazi (“Nazi”) + -fizieren → nazifizieren (“to nazify”)
Forms factitive verbs from adjectives and names of languages, meaning "causing to become" or "making"; -en, -fy
köken: From Proto-Finnic *-ntadak, possibly even from Proto-Uralic *-mta-, but in any case equal to -(e)n(e)- + -taa (the causative form of -eta, with which the stem-final vowel change is shared).
köken: Etymology tree Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficō Latin -ifico From -i- (connecting vowel) + -ficō (“-ify”).