Fic(e) [Fice, Fic]

Morpheme

Fic(e) [Fice, Fic]

Type

bound base

Denotation

make, do, create

Etymology

Latin -ficus and -ficere, from facere

Evidence

aedificichnia, artifice, beatific, beneficial, benefice, bideficient, biodeficient, deficiency, deficient, deficiently, deficientness, deficit, difficult, edifice, efficacious, edifice, -fic, -fice, frigorific, haplodeficient, honorific, hyperdeficient, -ific, -ifice, immunodeficient, indeficiency, indeficient, insufficiency, insufficient, malefic, multideficient, nondeficient, phosphodeficient, pseudodeficient, sacrifice, saponification, satisfice, satisficer, scientific, significance, significant, significavit, somnific, soporific, specific, stratification, suffice, sufficience, sufficiency, sufficient, sufficiently, terrific, undeficient

Notes

often misanalyzed as a suffix

See Also

Fac(e) [Face, Fac], Fact, Fy, Fect, Feit, Fit(e) [Fite, Fit], Fait, Fease, Fash

Homographs

Fice