purified

The word 'purified' is built upon the Latin adjective 'purus', meaning clean or unmixed, which itself may trace back to the Proto-Indo-European root 'peu-' meaning 'to cleanse' or 'to purify'. The addition of the Latin-derived suffix '-ify' (from '-ficare') converts the state of purity into the action of making pure. Finally, the Old English past participle suffix '-ed' completes the form, indicating either the completed action or the resultant state. Thus, the literal morpheme sequence "pure" + "to make" + "having been made" logically constructs the modern meaning of something that has undergone a process to become clean or free from impurities.

Structure: pur (pure) + ify (to make) + ed (adjective/verb suffix) - pur: From Latin 'purus' meaning clean, pure. Functions as the core root conveying the state of being uncontaminated. - ify: A verb-forming suffix from Latin '-ficare', meaning 'to make' or 'to do'. It transforms the root into an action. - ed: A suffix from Old English '-ed', '-od', '-ad'. In this word, it functions both as a past tense/past participle marker for the verb and as an adjective-forming suffix indicating a state resulting from an action.