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Are Artificial and Superficial etymologically related?
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Artificial has the Latin roots "of or belonging of art."
Superficial has the Latin roots "of or pertaining to the surface."
Is it that suffix -ficial means "belonging or pertaining to" or is there more to it? Superficial and Artificial also have synonymous, or at the very least complementary definitions. Both are used to describe "fake" things. I'm also not very good at coming up with random words with similar suffixes. But I do wonder if the suffix "-ficial" is related to the suffix "-cial" in words like Special.
Anyone understand this more that can share some answers?
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