Portuguese

Alternative forms

• efetivamente (superseded by)

Adverb

efectivamente (comparative mais efectivamente superlative o mais efectivamente)

1. Alternative spelling of efetivamente (superseded in Brazil by the 1943 spelling reform, and by the Orthographic Agreement of 1990 elsewhere. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn’t come into effect, and as an alternative spelling in Portugal, where the agreement came into effect in May 2009.)

Spanish

Etymology

From efectivo +‎ -mente.

Adverb

efectivamente

1. effectively
2. indeed, quite right