-fizieren

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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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:

Compare Italian -ficare, French -ifier and English -fy.

Pronunciation

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

Suffix

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-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

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Further reading

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