Word: effect Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ef- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Latin efficiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin effectuslbor. Old French effectbor. Middle English effect English effect 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. Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ef- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti Proto-Italic *θakjō Proto-Italic *fakjō Latin faciō Latin efficiō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin effectus Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Medieval Latin effectuōder. Middle English effecten English effect 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. Pronunciation: /ɪˈfɛkt/, /əˈfɛkt/, /ɪˈfekt/, /əˈfekt/, /iˈfɛkt/ 1. The result or outcome of a cause. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The effect of the hurricane was a devastated landscape. Example: The stories did not seem to me to touch life. They were plainly intended to have a bracing moral effect, and perhaps had this result for the people at whom they were aimed. 2. Impression left on the mind; sensation produced. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: patchwork […] introduced for oratorical effect Example: The effect was heightened by the wild and lonely nature of the place. 3. Execution; performance; realization; operation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: That no compunctious visitings of nature / Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between / The effect and it. 4. Execution; performance; realization; operation. Labels: uncountable Example: The new law will come into effect on the first day of next year. 5. An illusion produced by technical means (as in "special effect") Labels: countable, uncountable Example: The effect of flying was most convincing. Example: The colored bands of color that strobe through much of the text and other visual elements are perhaps the most prototypical of all Amiga demoscene effects and, again, are a direct result of the hardware on which Megademo was created to run. 6. An alteration, or device for producing an alteration, in sound after it has been produced by an instrument. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: I use an echo effect here to make the sound more mysterious. Example: I just bought a couple of great effects. 7. A scientific phenomenon, usually named after its discoverer. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Doppler effect 8. An influence or causal association between two variables. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: effect size Example: therapeutic effect 9. Belongings, usually as personal effects. Labels: countable, plural-normally, uncountable Example: The tenant shall pay for the repair of, or replace all such items of the fixtures, fittings, furniture and effects as shall be broken, lost, damaged or destroyed during that time. Example: His Goods, Family, and all his Effects were also ſeiz'd every where, and his Family carried into Priſon. 10. Consequence intended; purpose; meaning; general intent; with to. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: They spake to her to that effect. 11. Reality; actual meaning; fact, as distinguished from mere appearance. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: no other in effect than what it seems 12. Manifestation; expression; sign. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: All the large effects / That troop with majesty.