effetus

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Latin

Etymology

From ex- +‎ fētus.

Pronunciation

Adjective

effētus (feminine effēta, neuter effētum); first/second-declension adjective

  1. exhausted, worn out

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • English: effete

References

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