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effectivate en · VERB

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs Proto-Italic *eks Latin ex Latin ex- 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 *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Latin effectīvusbor. French effectifder. English effective Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Italic *-ātos Latin -ātuslbor. English -ate English effectivate From effective + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To make effective.
    • The main aim was to facilitate and effectivate information retrieval and update in all the institutions concerned. 2013, R. R. O'Moore, B. Barber, P. L. Reichertz, Medical Informatics Europe 82:
    • If, as Geddes explains, a woman does not "effectivate her sex," she would thus pass "from girlhood phase of Artemis to the grey hairs of Demeter. Hence again her way divides: at best to sisterhood and vice-motherhood," […] 2003, Volker M. Welter, Iain Boyd Whyte, Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life, page 193:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
effectivating Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
effectivates Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
effectivated Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
effectivated Tense=Past lexicographic

Synonyms

effectivize

Translations (2)

es hacer efectivo (''verb'') · es efectivar (''verb'')