Etimología y Historia de -fic

*dhē-, raíz del Proto-Indoeuropeo que significa "poner, colocar."

Podría formar parte de palabras como: abdomen; abscond; affair; affect (v.1) "dejar una impresión mental en;" affect (v.2) "fingir;" affection; amplify; anathema; antithesis; apothecary; artifact; artifice; beatific; benefice; beneficence; beneficial; benefit; bibliothec; bodega; boutique; certify; chafe; chauffeur; comfit; condiment; confection; confetti; counterfeit; deed; deem; deface; defeasance; defeat; defect; deficient; difficulty; dignify; discomfit; do (v.); doom; -dom; duma; edifice; edify; efface; effect; efficacious; efficient; epithet; facade; face; facet; facial; -facient; facile; facilitate; facsimile; fact; faction (n.1) "partido político;" -faction; factitious; factitive; factor; factory; factotum; faculty; fashion; feasible; feat; feature; feckless; fetish; -fic; fordo; forfeit; -fy; gratify; hacienda; hypothecate; hypothesis; incondite; indeed; infect; justify; malefactor; malfeasance; manufacture; metathesis; misfeasance; modify; mollify; multifarious; notify; nullify; office; officinal; omnifarious; orifice; parenthesis; perfect; petrify; pluperfect; pontifex; prefect; prima facie; proficient; profit; prosthesis; prothesis; purdah; putrefy; qualify; rarefy; recondite; rectify; refectory; sacrifice; salmagundi; samadhi; satisfy; sconce; suffice; sufficient; surface; surfeit; synthesis; tay; ticking (n.); theco-; thematic; theme; thesis; verify.

También podría ser la fuente de: sánscrito dadhati "pone, coloca;" avéstico dadaiti "él pone;" persa antiguo ada "él hizo;" hitita dai- "colocar;" griego tithenai "poner, colocar;" latín facere "hacer, llevar a cabo; realizar; provocar;" lituano dėti "poner;" polaco dziać się "estar sucediendo;" ruso delat' "hacer;" alto alemán antiguo tuon, alemán tun, inglés antiguo don "hacer."