Aurific

/ɔːˈrɪfɪk/ adjective

Producing or capable of producing gold; gold-making or gold-generating.

From Latin aurum (gold) with the suffix -fic, meaning 'making' or 'producing' (from facere, to make). This rare term appears in alchemical texts and obsolete scientific literature.

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