efficientia

Interlingua

Noun

efficientia (uncountable)

1. efficiency

Latin

Etymology

From efficiēns +‎ -ia.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ef.fi.kiˈen.ti.a/, [ɛfːɪkiˈɛn̪t̪iä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ef.fi.t͡ʃiˈen.t͡si.a/, [efːit͡ʃiˈɛnt̪͡s̪iä]

Noun

efficientia f (genitive efficientiae); first declension

1. efficient power, influence

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	efficientia	efficientiae
Genitive	efficientiae	efficientiārum
Dative	efficientiae	efficientiīs
Accusative	efficientiam	efficientiās
Ablative	efficientiā	efficientiīs
Vocative	efficientia	efficientiae

Descendants

• → Catalan: eficiència
• → English: efficiency
• → French: efficience
• → Italian: efficienza
• → Piedmontese: eficensa
• → Portuguese: eficiência
• → Romanian: eficiență
• → Spanish: eficiencia

Participle

efficientia

1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural of efficiēns

References

• “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.