efficientia

Interlingua

Noun

efficientia (uncountable)

1. efficiency

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin efficiēns

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -iusnom.

▲

Ancient Greek -ίᾱ (-íā)influ.

Latin -ia

Latin efficientia

From efficiēns + -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛf.fɪ.kiˈɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ef.fi.t͡ʃiˈɛn.t͡si.a]

Noun

efficientia f (genitive efficientiae); first declension

1. efficient power, influence

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	efficientia	efficientiae
genitive	efficientiae	efficientiārum
dative	efficientiae	efficientiīs
accusative	efficientiam	efficientiās
ablative	efficientiā	efficientiīs
vocative	efficientia	efficientiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: eficiència
• → English: efficiency
• → French: efficience
• → Italian: efficienza
• → Piedmontese: eficensa
• → Portuguese: eficiência
• → Romanian: eficiență
• → Spanish: eficiencia

Participle

efficientia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of efficiēns

References

• “efficientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “efficientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "efficientia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “efficientia”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.