sufficio

Sufficio is primarily a Latin verb meaning to supply, furnish, or to be sufficient. In classical Latin it is used to indicate providing resources or meeting a need. The principal parts are sufficio, sufficere, suffeci, suffectum, with sufficio as the first-person present form (“I supply” or “I suffice”) and sufficit meaning “it suffices” in the third person singular.

In Latin usage, sufficio appears in a range of contexts, from provisioning goods or services to expressing adequacy. It can convey that a quantity or measure is enough to meet a demand or obligation. The verb is part of Latin grammar in its active forms and appears in inscriptions, legal texts, and narrative prose where provision or sufficiency is described.

In Italian, sufficio is not standard; the common word for office or department is ufficio. The form sufficio may be encountered only in scholarly discussions of Latin or in historical texts that preserve Latin loanwords. In everyday Italian, sufficio would be unusual and considered archaic or a learned usage rather than a current term.

In English, sufficio is rarely used outside of discussions of Latin grammar or translations of Latin phrases. It may appear in academic works or glossaries that catalog Latin verbs and their principal parts. The related Latin noun sufficium or the verb sufficit are sometimes invoked to illustrate the idea of sufficiency in classical texts.