Latin

Alternative forms

• adficiō

Verb

afficiō ‎(present infinitive afficere, perfect active affēcī, supine affectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I treat, manage, handle
2. I influence, have an effect on
3. I attack, afflict, weaken, impair

Conjugation

Derived terms

• affectus
• sepultūrā afficiō

Descendants

• English: affect

References

• affĭcĭo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “adfĭcio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 35.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a thing makes a pleasant impression on the senses: aliquid sensus suaviter afficit
    
  • to bury a person: sepultura aliquem afficere
    
  • to be in a dilemma; in difficulties: angustiis premi, difficultatibus affici
    
  • to suffer loss, harm, damage: damno affici
    
  • to inconvenience, injure a person: incommodo afficere aliquem
    
  • to do any one a service or kindness: beneficio aliquem afficere, ornare
    
  • to remunerate (handsomely): praemiis (amplissimis, maximis) aliquem afficere
    
  • to praise, extol, commend a person: laude afficere aliquem
    
  • to confer undying fame on, immortalise some one: aliquem immortali gloria afficere
    
  • to honour, show respect for, a person: aliquem honore afficere, augere, ornare, prosequi (vid. sect. VI. 11., note Prosequi...)
    
  • to inflict an indignity upon, insult a person: aliquem ignominia afficere, notare
    
  • to give pleasure to some one: afficere aliquem gaudio, laetitia
    
  • to feel pain: dolore affici
    
  • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: aegritudine, sollicitudine affici
    
  • to long for a thing, yearn for it: desiderio alicuius rei teneri, affici (more strongly flagrare, incensum esse)
    
  • to be admired: admiratione affici
    
  • to wrong a person: iniuria afficere aliquem
    
  • to insult some one: contumelia aliquem afficere
    
  • to punish by banishment: aliquem exsilio afficere, multare
    
  • to enslave a free people: liberum populum servitute afficere
    
  • to punish some one: poena afficere aliquem (Off. 2. 5. 18)
    
  • to suffer capital punishment: supplicio (capitis) affici
    
• “afficiō” on pages 78–79 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “afficere” on page 28/1 of Jan Frederik Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus (1976)