effigies

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English

Noun

effigies

  1. plural of effigy

French

Noun

effigies f

  1. plural of effigie

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

effingō (“represent, portray”) +‎ -iēs.

Pronunciation

Noun

effigiēs f (genitive effigiēī); fifth declension

  1. copy, imitation
  2. likeness, portrait, image, effigy, statue

Declension

Fifth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative effigiēs effigiēs
Genitive effigiēī effigiērum
Dative effigiēī effigiēbus
Accusative effigiem effigiēs
Ablative effigiē effigiēbus
Vocative effigiēs effigiēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: efígie
  • English: effigy
  • French: effigie
  • Italian: effigie
  • Portuguese: efígie
  • Spanish: efigie

References

  • “effigies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “effigies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • effigies 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)
  • effigies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “effigies”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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