-ification

Etymology
From (ending on words generally borrowed whole from Old French), from, in turn from , a noun ending related to the supine ending -ficātum of first-conjugation verbs ending in -ficō (English ), derived from compounding with.

Suffix

 * 1) The process of becoming.

Usage notes
Occurs in words of French or Latin origin, but also productive, instead of expected *-ifation, from + ; compare.

Related terms




Translations

 * Afrikaans: -ifikasie, -fikasie, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Albanian: -ifikim, -fikim
 * Asturian: -ificación, -ficación
 * Basque: -ifikazio, -fikazio
 * Belarusian: -ыфіка́цыя, -фіка́цыя
 * Bulgarian: -ифика́ция, -фика́ция
 * Catalan: -ificació, -ficació
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 化
 * Hakka: 化
 * Hokkien: 化
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: -ifikace, -fikace
 * Danish: -ifikation, -fikation, -ificering, -ficering
 * Dutch: -ificatie, -ficatie, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Finnish: -ifikaatio, -fikaatio, -ifiointi, -fiointi
 * French: ,
 * Galician: -ificación, -ficación
 * Georgian: -იფიკაცია, -ფიკაცია
 * German: -ifikation, -fikation, -ifizierung, -fizierung
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ־יפִיקַצְיָה, ־פִיקַצְיָה
 * Hungarian: -ifikáció, -fikáció
 * Indonesian: -ifikasi, -fikasi
 * Italian: -ificazione, -ficazione
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: -화(化)
 * Latvian: -ifikācija, -ifikācija
 * Lithuanian: -ifikacija, -ifikacija
 * Macedonian: -ификација, -фикација
 * Norman: -ificâtion
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: -ifikasjon, -fikasjon, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Nynorsk: -ifikasjon, -fikasjon, -ifisering, -fisering
 * Occitan: -ificacion, -ficacion
 * Polish: -yfikacja, -fikacja
 * Portuguese: -ificação, -ficação
 * Romanian: -ificare, -ficare
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: -ифика́ција, -фика́ција
 * Roman: -ifikácija,-fikácija
 * Slovak: -ifikácia, -fikácia
 * Slovene: -ifikacija, -fikacija
 * Spanish: -ificación, -ficación
 * Swedish: -ifikation, -fikation, -ifiering, -fiering
 * Tagalog: -ipikasyon -pikasyon
 * Turkish: -ifikasyon, -fikasyon
 * Ukrainian: -ифіка́ція, -фіка́ція
 * Vietnamese: (化)
 * Yiddish: ־יפֿיקאַציע, ־פֿיקאַציע, ־יפֿיצירונג, ־פֿיצירונג

Etymology
, in turn borrowed from, a noun ending related to the supine ending of first-conjugation verbs ending in.