affectatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• adfectātiō

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd

Proto-Italic *ad

Proto-Italic *ad-

Latin ad-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti

Proto-Italic *θakjō

Proto-Italic *fakjō

Latin faciō

Latin afficiō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Italic *-tos

Latin -tus

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu.

Proto-Italic *-ājō

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin affectō

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Proto-Indo-European *-is

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin affectātiō

From affectō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [af.fɛkˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [af.fekˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

affectātiō f (genitive affectātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of striving after.
2. (rhetoric) The act of striving for effect in discourse; affectation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	affectātiō	affectātiōnēs
genitive	affectātiōnis	affectātiōnum
dative	affectātiōnī	affectātiōnibus
accusative	affectātiōnem	affectātiōnēs
ablative	affectātiōne	affectātiōnibus
vocative	affectātiō	affectātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: affectation
• French: affectation
• Italian: affettazione
• Portuguese: afetação
• Romanian: afectație
• Russian: аффекта́ция (affektácija)
• Spanish: afectación

References

• “affectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “affectatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.