-fy
/fʌɪ/suffix
1(Added to nouns) forming verbs denoting making or producing: speechify
1.1Denoting transformation or the process of making into: deify petrify
2Forming verbs denoting the making of a state defined by an adjective: amplify falsify
3Forming verbs expressing a causative sense: horrify
Origin
From French -fier, from Latin -ficare, -facere, from facere 'do, make'.
- demagogue
- proto-industrialization
- proto-Jupiter
- protolanguage
- protolife
- protolinguistic
- protolinguistics
- proto-literate
- protolith
- protolithic
- protolithionite
- protolog
- protological
- protologue
- protology
- Proto-Luke
- protolysis
- protolytic
- protoma
- protomammal
- proto-Mark
- protomartyr
- proto-Matthew
- protome
- protomer