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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /efˈfi.d͡ʒo/
- Rhymes: -idʒo
- Hyphenation: ef‧fì‧gio
Verb
effigio
- first-person singular present indicative of effigiare
Latin
Etymology
From effigiēs (“likeness, portrait”) + -ō (1st-conjugation verbal suffix).
Pronunciation
Verb
effigiō (present infinitive effigiāre, perfect active effigiāvī, supine effigiātum); first conjugation
- (transitive, Late Latin) to portray
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “effigio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- effigio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.