affectatio

Latin

Alternative forms

• adfectātiō

Etymology

From affectō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [af.fɛkˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [af.fekˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

affectātiō f (genitive affectātiōnis); third declension

1. The act of striving after.
2. (rhetoric) The act of striving for effect in discourse; affectation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	affectātiō	affectātiōnēs
genitive	affectātiōnis	affectātiōnum
dative	affectātiōnī	affectātiōnibus
accusative	affectātiōnem	affectātiōnēs
ablative	affectātiōne	affectātiōnibus
vocative	affectātiō	affectātiōnēs

Descendants

• English: affectation
• French: affectation
• Italian: affettazione
• Portuguese: afetação
• Romanian: afectație
• Russian: аффекта́ция (affektácija)
• Spanish: afectación

References

• “affectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “affectatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.