-faction

See also: fraction and faction

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Borrowed from French -faction, from Latin factio, factiōnem (“an act of making or doing”), from faciō (“I make, do”) +‎ -tiō (action noun suffix).^[1]

-faction

The act of creating something, or (more broadly) any process involving the specified thing.
‎lith- (“stone”) + ‎-i- + ‎-faction → ‎lithifaction (“the compaction and cementation of sediment into rock”)

‎aer- (“air”) + ‎-i- + ‎-faction → ‎aerifaction (“aeration, hyperinflation of the lungs”)

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