Talk:-ificio

Italian dictionaries state the suffix is -ficio, from Latin -ficium. I also know that in fact all the words are preceded by the "i", but maybe it's taken from the ablative case (e.g. lanificio, from Latin lanificium, maybe lanis + -ficium). I found another particular example: Italian ufficio, from Latin opus + -ficium --Diuturno 08:19, 18 March 2010 (UTC)


 * The DeMauro dictionary only lists -ificio: and not -ficio: - but Zingarelli is the other way round (I'll add an entry). SemperBlotto 08:32, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Treccani, Sabatini-Coletti and Zingarelli report the opposite. Yes, we can have both the entries --Diuturno 08:44, 18 March 2010 (UTC)