affectio

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From afficiō (“exert an influence on the body or mind”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /afˈfek.ti.oː/, [äfˈfɛkt̪ioː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /afˈfek.t͡si.o/, [äfˈfɛkt̪͡s̪io]

Noun

affectiō f (genitive affectiōnis); third declension

  1. The relation or disposition towards something produced in a person.
  2. A change in the state of the body or mind of a person; feeling, emotion.
  3. Love, affection or good will towards somebody.
  4. (Late Latin - in the Pandects of Justinian, 6th century): Will, volition, inclination.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative affectiō affectiōnēs
Genitive affectiōnis affectiōnum
Dative affectiōnī affectiōnibus
Accusative affectiōnem affectiōnēs
Ablative affectiōne affectiōnibus
Vocative affectiō affectiōnēs

Descendants

References
  • “affectio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • affectio 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)
  • affectio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio
    • humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)
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