Latin

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From afficiō (I affect) +‎ -tus (action noun-forming suffix).

Noun

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affectus m (genitive affectūs); fourth declension

  1. affection, mood, emotion, feeling
  2. affection, fondness, compassion, sympathy, love
Declension
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Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative affectus affectūs
genitive affectūs affectuum
dative affectuī affectibus
accusative affectum affectūs
ablative affectū affectibus
vocative affectus affectūs
Descendants
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  • Asturian: afeutu
  • Galician: afeito, afeuto
  • Italian: affetto
  • Catalan: afecte
  • Dutch: affect
    • Indonesian: afek
  • Portuguese: afeto (semi-learned)
  • Spanish: afecto

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Etymology 2

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Perfect passive participle of afficiō.

Participle

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affectus (feminine affecta, neuter affectum); first/second-declension participle

  1. (having been) endowed with, possessed of
  2. (having been) influenced, (having been) affected
  3. (having been) impaired, (having been) weakened
Declension
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First/second-declension adjective.

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References

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  • 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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
    • to be so disposed: ita animo affectum esse
  • affectus²” on page 77 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)