Latin

Alternative forms

• ecficiō

Verb

efficiō ‎(present infinitive efficere, perfect active effēcī, supine effectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I make or work out; effect, execute, complete, accomplish, make, form, compose.
2. I cause to occur, bring about, effect.
3. I produce, bear, yield.
4. I yield, bear, amount to, make out.
5. (philosophy) I make out, show, prove, deduce.

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Descendants

• English: effect
• French: effectuer
• Spanish: efectuar

References

• efficio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• efficio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “efficio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • God made the world: deus mundum aedificavit, fabricatus est, effecit (not creavit)
    
  • Fortune makes men shortsighted, infatuates them: fortuna caecos homines efficit, animos occaecat
    
  • to obtain a result in something: aliquid efficere, consequi in aliqua re (De Or. 1. 33. 152)
    
  • to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
    
  • the conclusion proves that..: ratio or rationis conclusio efficit
    
  • it follows from this that..: ex quo, unde, hinc efficitur ut
    
  • to form two legions: efficere duas legiones
    
  • to build a ship, a fleet: navem, classem aedificare, facere, efficere, instituere