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-fic

a combining form meaning “making,” “producing,” “causing,” appearing in adjectives borrowed from Latin: frigorific; honorific; pacific; prolific.

Origin:
< L -ficus making, producing, equiv. to -fic- (comb. form of facere to make) + -us adj. suffix; in some words r. -fique < MF < L -ficus
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suff.  Causing; making: soporific.

[Latin -ficus, from facere, to do; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.]
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