-fizieren

German

Alternative forms

• -ficieren, -fiziren, -ficiren (obsolete)

Etymology

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 and English -fy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iːrən/, [fiˈt͡siːʁən], [iːrən], [iː.ɐn], [iɐ̯n]
• Rhymes: -iːʁən
• Hyphenation: -fi‧zie‧ren

Suffix

-fizieren

1. 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.

   ‎Elektrik (“electricity”) + ‎-fizieren → ‎elektrifizieren (“to electrify”)

   ‎Nazi (“Nazi”) + ‎-fizieren → ‎nazifizieren (“to nazify”)

   ‎Mumie (“mummy”) + ‎-fizieren → ‎mumifizieren (“to mummify”)

Derived terms

German terms suffixed with -fizieren

Further reading

• “-fizieren” in Duden online