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Latin
Etymology
From afficiō (“exert an influence on the body or mind”) + -tiō.
Pronunciation
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.
Descendants
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, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio
- humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)