-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 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 ==== ==== Related terms ==== -ieren -isieren === Further reading === “-fizieren” in Duden online “-ifizieren” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache