effect

Signification (Anglais)

Opposé de
consequence, effect, result, hindrance, impediment, preventer, prohibitor
Fréquence

B1
Prononcé comme (IPA)
/ɪˈfɛkt/
Étymologie (Anglais)

In summary

Of the noun: from Middle English effect, from Old French effect (modern French effet), from Latin effectus (“an effect, tendency, purpose”), from efficiō (“accomplish, complete, effect”); see effect as a verb. Displaced Old English fremming, fremednes from fremman. Of the verb: from Middle English effecten, partly from Medieval Latin effectuō, from Latin effectus, perfect passive participle of efficiō (“accomplish, complete, do, effect”), from ex (“out”) + faciō (“do, make”) (see fact and compare affect, infect) and partly from the noun effect.

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