effectio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

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 efficiō

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 effectiō

From efficiō + -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛfˈfɛk.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [efˈfɛk.t͡si.o]

Noun

effectiō f (genitive effectiōnis); third declension

1. a doing, performing, practicing, effecting
   • 45 BCE, Cicero, De finibus bonorum et malorum 3.45:

     Et quemadmodum opportunitas (sic enim appellemus εὐκαιρίαν (eukairían)) non fit maior productione temporis (habent enim suum modum quae opportuna dicuntur), sic recta effectio (κατόρθωσιν (katórthōsin) enim ita appello, quoniam rectum factum κατόρθωμα (katórthōma)), recta igitur effectio, item convementia, denique ipsum bonum, quod in eo positum est ut naturae consentiat, crescendi accessionem nullam habet.

     • 1914 translation by H. Rackham

       And just Morality, and therefore happiness, not enbanced by duration. as opportuneness (for so let us translate eukairia) is not increased by prolongation of time (since things we call opportune have attained their proper measure), so right conduct (for thus I translate katorthōsis, since katorthōma is a single right action), right conduct, I say, and also propriety, and lastly Good itself, which consists in harmony with nature, are not capable of increase or addition.

2. efficiency
   • 412 CE – 426 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, De civitate Dei 12.7:

     Nemo igitur quaerat efficientem causam malae voluntatis; non enim est efficiens sed deficiens quia nec illa effectio sed defectio

     Therefore, no one should look for an efficient cause of an evil will, for it is not really efficient but deficient because it is not an efficiency but a deficiency

3. (philosophy) the producing or efficient cause
   • 45 BCE, Cicero, Academica 1.6:

     Nostra tu physica nosti, quae cum contineantur ex effectione et ex materia ea quam fingit et format effectio

     • 1933 translation by H. Rackham

       The natural science of my school you know; being a system that combines the efficient force and the matter which is fashioned and shaped by the efficient force

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	effectiō	effectiōnēs
genitive	effectiōnis	effectiōnum
dative	effectiōnī	effectiōnibus
accusative	effectiōnem	effectiōnēs
ablative	effectiōne	effectiōnibus
vocative	effectiō	effectiōnēs

References

• “effectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “effectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “effectio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.