Etimologia e Storia di -fic

*dhē-, una radice del Proto-Indoeuropeo che significa "mettere, collocare."

Potrebbe far parte di parole come: abdomen; abscond; affair; affect (v.1) "impressionare mentalmente;" affect (v.2) "fingere di;" 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) "partito politico;" -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.

Potrebbe anche essere all'origine di: in sanscrito dadhati "mette, colloca;" in avestano dadaiti "lui mette;" in antico persiano ada "lui ha fatto;" in ittita dai- "mettere;" in greco tithenai "mettere, collocare;" in latino facere "fare, compiere; realizzare; causare;" in lituano dėti "mettere;" in polacco dziać się "accadere;" in russo delat' "fare;" in alto tedesco antico tuon, in tedesco tun, in antico inglese don "fare."