affectio

== Latin == === Alternative forms === adfectiō adfecciō, affecciō (Medieval Latin) === Etymology === From afficiō (“exert an influence on the body or mind”) +‎ -tiō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [afˈfɛk.ti.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [afˈfɛk.t͡si.o] === Noun === affectiō f (genitive affectiōnis); third declension The relation or disposition towards something produced in a person. A change in the state of the body or mind of a person; feeling, emotion. Love, affection or good will towards somebody. (Late Latin, in the Pandects of Justinian, 6th century) Will, volition, inclination. ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: afecció English: affection French: affection Italian: affezione Portuguese: afeição, afecção 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, 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.