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• -fic

  a combining form meaning “making,” “producing,” “causing,” appearing in adjectives borrowed from latin: frigorific; honorific; pacific; prolific. -fic suffix causing, making, or producing honorific word origin

• -fication

  a combining form of nouns of action or state corresponding to verbs ending in -fy: deification; pacification. -fication suffix meaning “a making or causing,” from l. -ficationem, acc. of -ficatio, ult. from facere “to make, do” (see fact-tious).

• -flavin

  a combining form occurring in compound words which denote natural derivatives of flavin: riboflavin.

• -florous

  a combining form meaning “-flowered,” “having flowers,” used in the formation of adjectives: uniflorous. -florous combining form indicating number or type of flowers tubuliflorous

• -fold

  a native english suffix meaning “of so many parts,” or denoting multiplication by the number indicated by the stem or word to which the suffix is attached: twofold; manifold. -fold suffix, suffix having so many parts, being so many times as much or as many, or multiplied by so much or so many threefold, three-hundredfold […]

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