English search results for: efficacy

#1

verb

  • conjugation: 2nd conjugation
  • voice: intransitive

Definitions:

  1. have superior power/force/weight/influence/worth/efficacy (medicine)
  2. prevail
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
  • Source: General, unknown or too common to say
#2

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. adversity
  2. power of counteracting, efficacy as an antidote (Pliny)
  • Age: Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: Sent by users—mainly by John White of Blitz Latin
#3

noun

  • declension: 1st declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. accomplishment (Ecc)
  2. effectiveness
  3. efficacy
  4. efficiency
  5. power, influence
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. accomplishment (Ecc)
  2. effectiveness
  3. efficacy
  4. efficiency
  5. power, influence
  • Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: 2 or 3 citations
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5

noun

  • declension: 3rd declension
  • gender: feminine

Definitions:

  1. power of counteracting, efficacy as an antidote
  • Age: Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
  • Area: All or none
  • Geography: All or none
  • Frequency: Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
  • Source: “Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)