affectio

Latin

Alternative forms

• adfectiō
• adfecciō, affecciō (Medieval Latin)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /afˈfek.ti.oː/, [äfˈfɛkt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate 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

Related terms

• affectātiō
• affectātor
• affectātrīx
• affectātus
• affectē
• affectō
• affectus

Descendants

• Catalan: afecció
• English: affection
• French: affection
• Italian: affezione
• Portuguese: afeição
• Romanian: afecțiune
• Spanish: afición, afección

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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a good constitution: firma corporis constitutio or affectio
    
  • humour; disposition: animi affectio or habitus (De Inv. 2. 5)