affectus
Latin
Alternative forms
- adfectus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /afˈfek.tus/, [äfˈfɛkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /afˈfek.tus/, [äfˈfɛkt̪us]
Etymology 1
From afficiō (“I affect”) + -tus (action noun-forming suffix).
Noun
affectus m (genitive affectūs); fourth declension
- affection, mood, emotion, feeling
- affection, fondness, compassion, sympathy, love
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | affectus | affectūs |
Genitive | affectūs | affectuum |
Dative | affectuī | affectibus |
Accusative | affectum | affectūs |
Ablative | affectū | affectibus |
Vocative | affectus | affectūs |
Descendants
- Asturian: afeutu
- Galician: afeito, afeuto
- → Catalan: afecte
- → Italian: affetto
- → Portuguese: afeto (semi-learned)
- → Spanish: afecto
References
- “2. affectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- 2 adfectŭs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 34/3
- “affectus¹” on page 77 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
Etymology 2
Perfect passive participle of afficiō.
Participle
affectus (feminine affecta, neuter affectum); first/second-declension participle
- (having been) endowed with, possessed of
- (having been) influenced, (having been) affected
- (having been) impaired, (having been) weakened
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | affectus | affecta | affectum | affectī | affectae | affecta | |
Genitive | affectī | affectae | affectī | affectōrum | affectārum | affectōrum | |
Dative | affectō | affectō | affectīs | ||||
Accusative | affectum | affectam | affectum | affectōs | affectās | affecta | |
Ablative | affectō | affectā | affectō | affectīs | |||
Vocative | affecte | affecta | affectum | affectī | affectae | affecta |
Descendants
- → English: affect
- → Spanish: afecto
References
- “1. affectus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- affectus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- 1 adfectus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 34
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
- to be so disposed: ita animo affectum esse
- to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
- “affectus²” on page 77 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)