English search results for: efficacy
#1
verb
- conjugation: 2nd conjugation
- voice: intransitive
Definitions:
- have superior power/force/weight/influence/worth/efficacy (medicine)
- prevail
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
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Source:
General, unknown or too common to say
#2
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- adversity
- power of counteracting, efficacy as an antidote (Pliny)
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Age:
Medieval (11th-15th centuries)
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
Sent by users—mainly by John White of Blitz Latin
#3
noun
- declension: 1st declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- accomplishment (Ecc)
- effectiveness
- efficacy
- efficiency
- power, influence
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#4
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- accomplishment (Ecc)
- effectiveness
- efficacy
- efficiency
- power, influence
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Age:
In use throughout the ages/unknown
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
2 or 3 citations
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)
#5
noun
- declension: 3rd declension
- gender: feminine
Definitions:
- power of counteracting, efficacy as an antidote
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Age:
Early Latin, pre-classical, used for effect/poetry
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Area:
All or none
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Geography:
All or none
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Frequency:
Appears only in Pliny’s “Natural History”
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Source:
“Oxford Latin Dictionary”, 1982 (OLD)