affectio
Latin
Alternative forms
- adfectiō
- adfecciō, affecciō (Medieval Latin)
Etymology
From afficiō (“exert an influence on the body or mind”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [afˈfɛk.ti.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [afˈfɛk.t̪͡s̪i.o]
Noun
affectiō f (genitive affectiōnis); third declension
- The relation or disposition towards something produced in a person.
- A change in the state of the body or mind of a person; feeling, emotion.
- Love, affection or good will towards somebody.
- (Late Latin, in the Pandects of Justinian, 6th century) Will, volition, inclination.
Declension
Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | affectiō | affectiōnēs |
genitive | affectiōnis | affectiōnum |
dative | affectiōnī | affectiōnibus |
accusative | affectiōnem | affectiōnēs |
ablative | affectiōne | affectiōnibus |
vocative | affectiō | affectiōnēs |
Related terms
Descendants
- Catalan: afecció
- English: affection
- French: affection
- Italian: affezione
- Portuguese: afeição, afecção
- Romanian: afecțiune
- Spanish: afición, afección
References
- “affectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "affectio", 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)
- affectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio
- humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)
- a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio