efficiens

Danish

Noun

efficiens c (singular definite efficiensen, not used in plural form)

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Declension

Declension of efficiens

common gender	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	efficiens	efficiensen
genitive	efficiens'	efficiensens

Further reading

• “efficiens” in Den Danske Ordbog

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of efficiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛfˈfɪ.ki.ẽːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [efˈfiː.t͡ʃi.ens]

Participle

efficiēns (genitive efficientis, adverb efficienter); third-declension one-termination participle

1. producing, and related senses of the action
2. (Medieval Latin) efficient

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	efficiēns			efficientēs	efficientia
genitive	efficientis			efficientium
dative	efficientī			efficientibus
accusative	efficientem	efficiēns		efficientēs efficientīs	efficientia
ablative	efficiente efficientī1			efficientibus
vocative	efficiēns			efficientēs	efficientia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

Descendants

• → Catalan: eficient
• → French: efficient
• → Galician: eficiente
• → Italian: efficiente
• → Piedmontese: eficent
• → Portuguese: eficiente
• → Romanian: eficient
• → Spanish: eficiente

References

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