effor

• ecfor

From ex- (“out”) +‎ for (“say”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛf.fɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛf.for]

effor (present infinitive effārī, perfect active effātus sum); first conjugation, deponent

1. to speak, say out, utter

   Synonyms: for, oro, alloquor, inquam, loquor, aio, dico

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.76:

     [...] incipit effārī, mediāque in vōce resistit; [...].

     [Dido] starts to say [something to Aeneas], and in the middle of her words, she stops; [...].
     (Idiomatically, Dido “loses” her words, “forgets” what she is saying, or becomes “tongue-tied”.)

2. (of augurs) to define, determine, fix

• In Classical Latin, the only forms attested in surviving sources are: effor, effāris, effātur, effāmini, effantur, effābor, effābere, effābimur, effāre, effārī, perfect forms from effātus, the present active participle effāns, and the gerund effandum, and gerundive effandus.

• effābilis
• effātiō
• effātum
• effātus

• for

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