Where does “affect” come from?
affect (Middle English) comes from Latin affectus, from Latin afficiō, from Latin faciō, from Latin -torium, from Latin -tōrius, from Latin -tor, from Proto-Italic -tōr, from Proto-Indo-European -tōr.
Ancestry of “affect”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | affectus | affection, mood, emotion, feeling; affection,... |
| 2 | Latin | afficiō | to cause someone to experience something; to visit, inflict, bestow |
| 3 | Latin | faciō | to do |
| 4 | Latin | -torium | nominative neuter singular of -tōrius; accusative... |
| 5 | Latin | -tōrius | ory |
| 6 | Latin | -tor | -er |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -tōr | Forms agent nouns to verb stems |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | -tōr | Derives agent nouns from verbs, denoting someone... |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tor-s | — |