affectatio

== Latin == === Alternative forms === adfectātiō === Etymology === From affectō +‎ -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [af.fɛkˈtaː.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [af.fekˈtat.t͡si.o] === Noun === affectātiō f (genitive affectātiōnis); third declension The act of striving after. (rhetoric) The act of striving for effect in discourse; affectation. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== English: affectation French: affectation Italian: affettazione Portuguese: afetação Romanian: afectație Russian: аффекта́ция (affektácija) Spanish: afectación === References === “affectatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “affectatio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.