efficientia
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]efficientia (uncountable)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ef.fi.kiˈen.ti.a/, [ɛfːɪkiˈɛn̪t̪iä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ef.fi.t͡ʃiˈen.t͡si.a/, [efːit͡ʃiˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]
Noun
[edit]efficientia f (genitive efficientiae); first declension
- efficient power, influence
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | efficientia | efficientiae |
| genitive | efficientiae | efficientiārum |
| dative | efficientiae | efficientiīs |
| accusative | efficientiam | efficientiās |
| ablative | efficientiā | efficientiīs |
| vocative | efficientia | efficientiae |
Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: eficiència
- → English: efficiency
- → French: efficience
- → Italian: efficienza
- → Piedmontese: eficensa
- → Portuguese: eficiência
- → Romanian: eficiență
- → Spanish: eficiencia
Participle
[edit]efficientia
References
[edit]- “efficientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “efficientia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- efficientia 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)
- efficientia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.