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Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *adfakjō. Equivalent to ad- + faciō (“do, make”).
Pronunciation
Verb
afficiō (present infinitive afficere, perfect active affēcī, supine affectum); third conjugation iō-variant
- to cause someone to experience something; to visit, inflict, bestow
- iniūriā afficere aliquem ― to wrong someone
- laude afficere aliquem ― to praise someone
- dolōre afficī ― to feel pain
- to treat, manage, handle
- to influence, have an effect on
- Synonyms: perpellō, īnfluō
- to attack, afflict, weaken, impair
- Synonyms: atterō, frangō, effēminō, tenuō, minuō, dēterō, cōnsūmō
- Antonyms: firmō, cōnfirmō, mūniō, fortificō, cōnsolidō, sistō
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Derived terms
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References
- “affĭcĭo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- adfĭcio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 35.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a thing makes a pleasant impression on the senses: aliquid sensus suaviter afficit
- to bury a person: sepultura aliquem afficere
- to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: angustiis premi, difficultatibus affici
- to suffer loss, harm, damage: damno affici
- to inconvenience, injure a person: incommodo afficere aliquem
- to do any one a service or kindness: beneficio aliquem afficere, ornare
- to remunerate (handsomely): praemiis (amplissimis, maximis) aliquem afficere
- to praise, extol, commend a person: laude afficere aliquem
- to confer undying fame on, immortalise some one: aliquem immortali gloria afficere
- to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
- to inflict an indignity upon, insult a person: aliquem ignominia afficere, notare
- to give pleasure to some one: afficere aliquem gaudio, laetitia
- to feel pain: dolore affici
- to be vexed, mortified, anxious: aegritudine, sollicitudine affici
- to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
- to be admired: admiratione affici
- to wrong a person: iniuria afficere aliquem
- to insult some one: contumelia aliquem afficere
- to punish by banishment: aliquem exsilio afficere, multare
- to enslave a free people: liberum populum servitute afficere
- to punish some one: poena afficere aliquem (Off. 2. 5. 18)
- to suffer capital punishment: supplicio (capitis) affici
- “afficiō” on pages 78–79 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “afficere”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 28/1