effect

See also: Effect

English

Etymology

For noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Replaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman.

For verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪˈfɛkt/
(General American) IPA^(key): /əˈfɛkt/
(Malaysia, Singapore) IPA^(key): /iˈfɛkt/[1]
Audio (GA) (file)
Audio (UK) (file)
Rhymes: -ɛkt
Hyphenation: ef‧fect
Homophone: affect (weak vowel merger)

Noun

effect (countable and uncountable, plural effects)

The result or outcome of a cause.
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter I, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., OCLC 222716698:
  The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 1, in The China Governess‎:
  The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. […] The bed was the most extravagant piece. Its graceful cane halftester rose high towards the cornice and was so festooned in carved white wood that the effect was positively insecure, as if the great couch were trimmed with icing sugar.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist‎, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
  The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape.
Impression left on the mind; sensation produced.
- 1832 October 1, unknown author, “The Tears of Parents”, in The Christian Observer, volume 32:
  patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect
- 1832, Washington Irving, Tales of the Alhambra:
  The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place.
Execution; performance; realization; operation.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene v]:
  That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it.
1. (uncountable) The state of being binding and enforceable, as in a rule, policy, or law.
  The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year.
(cinematography, computer graphics, demoscene) An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect")
The effect of flying was most convincing.
- 2018, Jimmy Maher, The Future Was Here: The Commodore Amiga (page 186)
  The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run.
(sound engineering) An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument.
I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious.
I just bought a couple of great effects.
(physics, psychology, etc.) A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer.
Doppler effect
(usually in the plural) Belongings, usually as personal effects.
- 1690, “A Relation of the Late Great Revolution in Siam, and the Driving Out of the French”, in A Full and True Relation of the Great and Wonderful Revolution That Hapned Lately in the Kingdom of Siam in the East-Indies, London: Randal Taylor, page 7:
  His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon.
Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, 2 Chronicles 34:22:
  They spake to her to that effect.
(obsolete) Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance.
- 1642, John Denham, Cooper's Hill
  no other in effect than what it seems
(obsolete) Manifestation; expression; sign.
- c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene i]:
  All the large effects / That troop with majesty.

Usage notes

Do not confuse with affect.

Adjectives often applied to "effect":

biological, chemical, cultural, economic, legal, mental, moral, nutritional, personal, physical, physiological, political and social
actual, bad, beneficial, catastrophic, deleterious, disastrous, devastating, fatal, good, harmful, important, intended, likely, natural, negative, positive, potential, primary, real, secondary, significant, special, strong, undesirable and weak

Hyponyms

acousto-optic effect
adverse effect
aftereffect
after-effect
aha effect
backfire effect
bandwagon effect
bank effect
Barnum effect
betavoltaic effect
boomerang effect
Bridgman effect
butterfly effect
Casimir effect
Cheerios effect
Cher effect
Cherenkov effect
chimney effect
cis effect
Coriolis effect
cumulative effect
cutaneous rabbit effect
desired effect
disulfiram effect
domino effect
Doppler effect
Dunning-Kruger effect
edge effect
eureka effect
Faraday effect
Forer effect
Forrester effect
fraternal birth order effect
geodetic effect
greenhouse effect
ground effect
gyromagnetic effect
Hall effect
Hill-Robertson effect
hothouse effect
ideomotor effect
ill effect
inductive effect
isotope effect
Joule-Thomson effect
knock-on effect
lake effect
Lombard effect
lotus effect
Marangoni effect
mass effect
Matthew effect
mesomeric effect
Mössbauer effect
Nader effect
neighbourhood effect
nocebo effect
Peltier effect
photoeffect
photoelectric effect
photovoltaic effect
piezoelectric effect
piezoresistive effect
placebo_effect
plateau effect
Pockels effect
practical effect
primacy effect
Purkinje effect
Pygmalion effect
pyroelectric effect
quantum Hall effect
resonance effect
ripple effect
runaway albedo effect
Schwinger effect
Seebeck effect
side effect
Signor-Lipps effect
site effect
skin effect
snowball effect
sound effect
special effect
spillover effect
spoiler effect
spot effect
stack effect
Stark effect
status effect
Tetris effect
Thatcher effect
threshold effect
trans effect
triboelectric effect
Venturi effect
visual effect
white coat effect
Woozle effect
Yarkovsky effect
YORP effect
Zeeman effect
Zeigarnik effect

Derived terms

some may be Hyponyms, but one Wiktionary editor was too lazy to sort them.

acousto-optic effect
adverse effect
aha effect
Allee effect
Auger effect
avalanche effect
backfire effect
Baldwin effect
bandwagon effect
bank effect
Barkhausen effect
Barnum effect
Bayliss effect
Bernoulli effect
betavoltaic effect
Biefeld-Brown effect
birthday effect
black drop effect
Bohr effect
boomerang effect
bouba/kiki effect
Bradley effect
Branly effect
Brazil nut effect
Bridgman effect
Bruce effect
bullwhip effect
butt-brush effect
bystander effect
cannonball effect
Casimir effect
catch-up effect
cause and effect
cause and effect
Cerenkov effect
Cheerio effect
Cheerios effect
cheerleader effect
Cher effect
Cherenkov effect
chilling effect
chimney effect
Christmas tree effect
Cinderella effect
cis effect
CNN effect
Coandă effect
cobra effect
cocktail party effect
come into effect
come into effect
Compton effect
Coolidge effect
Coriolis effect
corset effect
Cotton effect
cross-race effect
cumulative effect
Cupertino effect
decoy effect
Dember effect
desired effect
dosis-effect
double effect
Dr. Fox effect
Droste effect
edge effect
Edison effect
effection
effect size
effect size
effectuation
Einstellung effect
ELIZA effect
entourage effect
eureka effect
experience effect
Fano effect
Faraday effect
fect
-fect
Ferguson effect
Ferranti effect
field effect
flash-lag effect
flow-on effect
flow on effect
Flynn effect
Forer effect
Forrester effect
founder effect
framing effect
Franssen effect
fraternal birth-order effect
fraternal birth order effect
Frey effect
Fröhlich effect
FX,F/X
ganzfeld effect
gem-disubstituent effect
geodetic effect
Glasgow effect
green-beard effect
ground effect
ground-effect machine
ground effect machine
ground-effect machine
ground-effect vehicle
ground-effect vehicle
gunslinger effect
gyromagnetic effect
Haas effect
Hall effect
halo effect
hard-easy effect
Hawthorne effect
healthy participant effect
hot chocolate effect
hothouse effect
ideomotor effect
IKEA effect
inductive effect
in effect
inner-platform effect
isotope effect
Jahn-Teller effect
January effect
Jod-Basedow effect
Josephson effect
Joule-Kelvin effect
Joule-Thomson effect
kappa effect
Kelvin-Joule effect
Kerr effect
Köhler effect
Kuleshov effect
lake effect
lake-effect
Lake Wobegon effect
Land effect
Larsen effect
Las Vegas effect
lawn dart effect
Lazarus effect
Lee-Boot effect
legal effect
Leidenfrost effect
Lindy effect
lipstick effect
Little-Parks effect
lotus effect
magnetocaloric effect
Magnus effect
Mandela effect
Mars effect
martini effect
mass effect
Matilda effect
McClintock effect
McGurk effect
Meissner effect
mere exposure effect
mesomeric effect
Moneymaker effect
Mössbauer effect
Mould effect
Mozart effect
Mpemba effect
Mullins effect
narrow-width effect
neglected firm effect
neighbourhood effect
Nernst effect
network effect
nocebo effect
Nordtvedt effect
Novaya Zemlya effect
nuclear Overhauser effect
Oberth effect
oddity effect
Olympic village effect
Oprah effect
or words to that effect
Osborne effect
ouzo effect
overview effect
Papageno effect
Paschen-Back effect
Payne effect
Peltier effect
Perky effect
personal effects
photoelectric effect
photoelectromagnetic effect
photoferroelectric effect
photovoltaic effect
piezoelectric effect
piezoresistive effect
pinch effect
placebo effect
plateau effect
Pockels effect
popcorn effect
practical effect
primacy effect
protégé effect
Pulfrich effect
pull effect
Purkinje effect
Purkyne effect
Purkyně effect
put into effect
put into effect
Pygmalion effect
pyroelectric effect
quantum Hall effect
Raman effect
ransom note effect
Rashomon effect
rebound effect
resonance effect
reverse Magnus effect
Root effect
Rosenthal effect
Sadler effect
Sagnac effect
salt-effect distillation
Schwinger effect
second-system effect
Seebeck effect
sheepskin effect
Shipman effect
side-effect
Signor-Lipps effect
Simon effect
skin effect
Slashdot effect
slingshot effect
small firm effect
SnackWell effect
snob effect
spillover effect
spot effect
spotlight effect
squat effect
stack effect
Stark effect
status effect
Stockholm effect
Streisand effect
Stroop effect
Suess effect
Sylvia Plath effect
take effect
Tanada effect
tau effect
Tetris effect
Thatcher effect
third-person effect
threshold effect
Tocqueville effect
to the effect
to the effect
trampoline effect
trans effect
transverse flow effect
trench effect
triboelectric effect
Troxler effect
Tyndall effect
Vandenbergh effect
Venturi effect
venturi effect
vital effect
von Restorff effect
wagon-wheel effect
water cooler effect
Weinstein effect
Werther effect
Westermarck effect
white coat effect
Whitten effect
wick effect
Wilder effect
wing in ground effect
wing in ground effect
wing-in-surface-effect ship
Withgott effect
Wolff-Chaikoff effect
women are wonderful effect
YORP effect
Zeeman effect
Zeigarnik effect

Translations

result of an action

Albanian: efekt (sq) m
Arabic: تَأْثِير‎ m (taʾṯīr), أَثَر‎ (ar) m (ʾaṯar)
Armenian: էֆեկտ (hy) (ēfekt), ազդեցություն (hy) (azdecʿutʿyun)
Asturian: efeutu m
Azerbaijani: əsər (az), effekt
Bashkir: һөҙөмтә (höðömtä), нәтижә (nätijä)
Belarusian: эфе́кт m (efjékt), вы́нік (be) m (výnik), рэзульта́т m (rezulʹtát)
Bengali: আসর (bn) (asôr)
Bulgarian: резулта́т (bg) m (rezultát), сле́дствие (bg) n (slédstvie), ефе́кт (bg) m (efékt)
Burmese: အကျိုး (my) (a.kyui:)
Catalan: efecte (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 效果 (yue) (haau⁶ gwo²)
Mandarin: 效果 (zh) (xiàoguǒ), 影響／影响 (zh) (yǐngxiǎng), 結果／结果 (zh) (jiéguǒ)
Czech: účinek (cs) m, efekt (cs) m
Danish: effekt, virkning
Dutch: effect (nl) n, werking (nl) f
Esperanto: efiko
Estonian: mõju, toime, tagajärg
Finnish: seuraus (fi), vaikutus (fi)
French: effet (fr)
Galician: efecto (gl) m
Georgian: ეფექტი (epekṭi)
German: Auswirkung (de) f, Wirkung (de) f
Greek: αποτέλεσμα (el) n (apotélesma), επίδραση (el) f (epídrasi), πραγματοποίηση (el) f (pragmatopoíisi)
Hebrew: תּוֹצָאָה‎ (he) f (totzaá)
Hindi: असर (hi) m (asar), प्रभाव (hi) m (prabhāv)
Hungarian: hatás (hu), effektus (hu)
Ido: efekto (io)
Italian: effetto (it)
Japanese: 効果 (ja) (kōka), 影響 (ja) (eikyō), 結果 (ja) (kekka), 作用 (ja) (sayō)
Kazakh: әсер (kk) (äser), нәтиже (kk) (nätije)
Khmer: ផល (km) (phɑl), លទ្ធផល (latthĕəʼphɑɑl)
Korean: 결과(結果) (ko) (gyeolgwa)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: tesîr (ku)
Kyrgyz: натыйжа (natıyja), эффект (ky) (effekt)
Lao: ຜົນ (phon), ຜົນກະທົບ (phon ka thop)
Latin: effectus m, fructus (la) m
Latvian: efekts m, iedarbība f, iedarbe f
Malay: kesan (ms)
Maori: rara, pānga, kawekawenga
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: нөлөө (mn) (nölöö)
Mongolian: ᠨᠥᠯᠦᠭᠡ (nölüge)
Norman: êffet m
Norwegian: effekt m
Bokmål: virkning m or f
Occitan: efèit (oc) m, efèct m, efècte (oc) m, efièch (oc) m
Pashto: اثر‎ (ps) m (asár)
Persian: اثر‎ (fa) (asar), تأثیر‎ (fa) (ta'sir)
Polish: efekt (pl) m, rezultat (pl) m, wynik (pl) m, skutek (pl) m
Portuguese: efeito (pt) m
Romanian: efect (ro)
Russian: эффе́кт (ru) m (effékt), результа́т (ru) m (rezulʹtát), возде́йствие (ru) n (vozdéjstvije), влия́ние (ru) n (vlijánije), сле́дствие (ru) n (slédstvije)
Scottish Gaelic: buil f, èifeachd f, toradh m
Serbo-Croatian: ishod (sh) m, efekt (sh) m, učinak (sh) m, rezultat (sh) m
Slovak: účinok m
Slovene: učinek (sl) m
Spanish: efecto (es) m
Swahili: madhara (sw)
Swedish: effekt (sv) c, resultat (sv) n, verkan (sv) c
Tajik: асар (asar), таъсир (tg) (taʾsir)
Tatar: нәтиҗә (tt) (näticä)
Thai: ผล (th) (pǒn), ผลกระทบ (pǒn-grà-tóp)
Tocharian B: oko
Turkish: etki (tr), tesir (tr), efekt (tr)
Turkmen: täsir
Ukrainian: ефе́кт (uk) m (efékt), результа́т (uk) m (rezulʹtát)
Urdu: اثر‎ (ur) m (asar)
Uyghur: نەتىجە‎ (netije)
Uzbek: taʻsir, effekt (uz), asar (uz), natija (uz)
Vietnamese: hiệu ứng
Welsh: effaith (cy) m

impression left in the mind

Esperanto: efekto (eo)
German: Eindruck (de) m, Effekt (de) m

special effect in film

Bulgarian: ефект (bg) m (efekt)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: efekti (fi)
French: effet (fr)
German: Effekt (de) m, Eindruck (de) m
Greek: εφφέ (el) n (effé), εφέ (el) n (efé)
Hebrew: אֶפֶקְט‎ (he) m (efékt), פַּעֲלוּל‎ (he) f (pa'lúl)
Hungarian: effektus (hu)
Japanese: 音響効果 (onkyō-kōka)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Malay: kesan (ms), efek
Maori: rākeitanga
Persian: افکت‎ (fa) (efekt)
Portuguese: efeitos especiais (pt) m pl
Romanian: efect (ro)
Russian: эффе́кт (ru) m (effékt)
Serbo-Croatian: dojam (sh) m, efekt (sh) m
Slovak: efekt (sk)
Slovene: učinek (sl) m
Spanish: efectos (es) m pl, efectos especiales (es) m pl
Swahili: madhara (sw)
Swedish: effekt (sv) c
Turkish: efekt (tr)

sound engineering: alteration in sound

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: efekti (fi)
German: Effekt (de) m
Hebrew: אֶפֶקְט‎ (he) m (efékt)
Japanese: エフェクター (efekutā)
Korean: 효과 (ko) (hyogwa)
Portuguese: efeito sonoro m
Romanian: efect sonor (ro)
Russian: эффе́кт (ru) m (effékt)
Serbo-Croatian: efekt (sh)
Slovak: efekt (sk)
Spanish: efecto (es) m
Swahili: madhara (sw)
Swedish: effekt (sv) c
Turkish: efekt (tr)

sound engineering: device

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: efekti (fi)
Russian: please add this translation if you can

state of being binding and enforceable

Catalan: vigència (ca) f, vigor (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: voimassaolo
German: Kraft (de), Wirksamkeit (de) f, Gültigkeit (de) f
Greek: ισχύς (el) f (ischýs)
Hungarian: hatály (hu)
Japanese: 発効 (ja) (hakkō)
Korean: 효력 (ko) (hyoryeok)
Portuguese: vigência (pt) f, vigor (pt) m
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: účinnosť
Spanish: vigencia (es) f, vigor (es) m
Swahili: madhara (sw)
Turkish: yürürlük (tr)

scientific phenomenon

Armenian: երևույթ (hy) (erewuytʿ)
Bulgarian: ефект (bg) m (efekt)
Catalan: efecte (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ilmiö (fi)
French: effet (fr) m
German: Effekt (de) m
Greek: φαινόμενο (el) n (fainómeno)
Hebrew: אֶפֶקְט‎ (he) m (efékt)
Hungarian: effektus (hu)
Korean: 효과(効果) (ko) (hyogwa)
Portuguese: efeito (pt) m
Romanian: efect (ro)
Russian: эффе́кт (ru) m (effékt)
Serbo-Croatian: učinak (sh) m, efekt (sh) m
Slovak: efekt (sk), jav
Spanish: efecto (es) m
Swedish: effekt (sv) c
Thai: ปรากฏการณ์ (th) (bpraa-gòt-dtà-gaan)

belongings

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: tavarat (fi) pl, omaisuus (fi)
French: effets (fr) m pl
German: Effekten (de) f pl (dated), Siebensachen (de) f pl (coll.), persönliche Gegenstände m pl
Irish: airnéis f
Maori: taonga
Portuguese: pertence (pt) m
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: pertenencias (es) f pl
Swedish: effekt (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

Lithuanian: ^{(please verify)} padarinys m, ^{(please verify)} rezultatas m, ^{(please verify)} pasekmė f

Verb

effect (third-person singular simple present effects, present participle effecting, simple past and past participle effected)

(transitive) To make or bring about; to implement.
The best way to effect change is to work with existing stakeholders.
- 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6)‎:
  The punishment for sodomy, when completely effected, was death, and it was frequently inflicted.
- 1944 July and August, Charles E. Lee, “The "City of Truro"”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:
  The transfer by tender of some 1,300 mail bags was effected smartly, and the "Ocean Mails Special" train was ready at 9.19 a.m.
Misspelling of affect

Usage notes

Effect is often confused with affect. The latter usually suggests influence over existing ideas, emotions and entities. While the former indicates the manifestation of new and/or original ideas or entities:

“New governing coalitions have effected major changes” indicates that major changes were made as a result of new governing coalitions.
“New governing coalitions have affected major changes” indicates that before new governing coalitions, major changes were in place, and that the new governing coalitions had some influence over those existing changes.

Related terms

terms related to effect (verb)

effectible
effectibility
effective
effectiveness
effectivity
effector
effectual
effectuate
efficacious
efficacity
efficacy
efficiency
efficient

Translations

to make or bring about; to implement

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Bulgarian: извършвам (bg) (izvǎršvam), осъществявам (bg) (osǎštestvjavam)
Catalan: efectuar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: bewerkstelligen (nl)
Finnish: saada aikaan (fi)
French: effectuer (fr)
Galician: efectuar
German: bewirken (de), veranlassen (de)
Greek: εκτελώ (el) (ekteló), αποτελώ (el) (apoteló), φέρνω αποτέλεσμα (férno apotélesma)
Ancient: ἐνεργέω (energéō), ἀνύω (anúō)
Hungarian: okoz (hu), előidéz (hu), kivált (hu), eredményez (hu), megvalósít (hu), elér (hu)
Italian: effettuare (it)
Japanese: 達成する (tassei-suru)
Korean: please add this translation if you can
Latin: efficiō
Norwegian: forårsake (no)
Piedmontese: efetué
Portuguese: efetuar (pt), efectivar
Russian: please add this translation if you can
Slovak: dosiahnuť
Spanish: efectuar (es)
Swahili: madhara (sw)
Swedish: sätta i verket, effektuera (sv), sätta igång (sv), verkställa (sv), utverka (sv)
Turkish: etki (tr), sonuç (tr)
Vietnamese: dẫn đến

References

Deterding, David; Hvitfeldt, Robert (1994), “The Features of Singapore English Pronunciation:Implications for Teachers”, in Teaching and Learning‎ (in English), volume 15, issue 1, pages 98–107

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch effect, from Old French effect, from Latin effectus. The sense ‘(equitable) security’ borrowed from German Effekt or French effet.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɛˈfɛkt/
Audio (file)
Hyphenation: ef‧fect
Rhymes: -ɛkt

Noun

effect n (plural effecten, diminutive effectje n)

effect, impact
(finance, usually in the plural) security, notably bond or stock
Hypernym: waardepapier
(ball games) spin (rotation of a ball)
(obsolete) personal effect, belonging

Derived terms

effectief

Compounds

broeikaseffect
domino-effect
effectbal
effectenbeurs
effectenmakelaar
sneeuwbaleffect

Descendants

Afrikaans: effek
→ Indonesian: efek

References

Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Middle French

Alternative forms

effaict

Etymology

From Old French effect.

Noun

effect m (plural effects)

effect

Descendants

French: effet

Old French

Etymology

From Latin effectus.

Noun

effect m (oblique plural effecz or effectz, nominative singular effecz or effectz, nominative plural effect)

effect
(law) judgment; decree
- punir les contrevenantz solonc l’effect des estatut
  Punish the offender according to the decree of the statute

Descendants

English: effect
French: effet
German: Effekt

[1] Deterding, David; Hvitfeldt, Robert (1994), “The Features of Singapore English Pronunciation:Implications for Teachers”, in Teaching and Learning‎ (in English), volume 15, issue 1, pages 98–107

[2] Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

effect

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