-facient
Origin of -facient
Words nearby -facient
WORDS THAT USE -FACIENT
What does -facient mean?
The combining form -facient is used like a suffix meaning “causing” or “inducing.” It is very occasionally used in scientific terms, especially in medicine.
The form -facient comes from Latin facere, meaning “to make” or “to do.” Facere is also the source of the stems fac-, fact-, fect-, and fic-, as in facility and faculty, fact and factor, affection and infect, and beneficial and sacrifice. Find out more by visiting all eight entries!
What are variants of -facient?
Though -facient has no variants, it is related to the combining forms -fex, -fic, -fication, -fy, and -ify. To learn more, check out our Words That Use articles for all five forms.
Examples of -facient
One example of a scientific term that uses the form -facient is immunifacient, “producing immunity.”
The immuni- portion of the word is a shortened form of immunity. As we have seen, -facient means “causing” or “inducing.” Immunifacient literally translates to “causing immunity.”
What are some words that use the combining form -facient?
- abortifacient
- absorbefacient
- motofacient
- tumefacient (using the equivalent form of -facient in Latin)
What are some other forms that -facient may be commonly confused with?
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How to use -facient in a sentence
Et si abbas non venerit facient finem cum celerario si voluerit vel cum alii quem Abbas nomine suo miserit ad minus 20 solidis.
Villainage in England|Paul VinogradoffDrace, pererrati quem novit terminus orbis, Quemque simul mundi vidit uterque Polus; Si taceant homines, facient te sidera notum.