affective

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• /əˈfɛktɪv/
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• homophone: effective (weak vowel merger)
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• CMU ARPABET: AH0 F EH1 K T IH0 V Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Medieval Latin affectivus, from Latin affectus, past participle of afficere (“to affect”). By surface analysis, affect + -ive.

30 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: емоционален (emocionalen) — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Catalan: afectiu — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Czech: afektivní — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Czech: emoční — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Danish: følelsesladet — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Danish: affektiv — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Esperanto: afekcia — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Finnish: affektiivinen — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Finnish: liikuttunut — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Finnish: tunteellinen — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Norwegian Bokmål: affektiv — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Norwegian Nynorsk: affektiv — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Persian: عاطفی ('âtefi) — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Polish: afektywny — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Portuguese: afetivo — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Romanian: afectiv — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Russian: эмоциона́льный (emocionálʹnyj) — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Serbo-Croatian: afektivan — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Spanish: afectivo — relating to, resulting from, or influenced by the emotions
• Catalan: afectiu — emotional; emotionally charged
• Czech: afektivní — emotional; emotionally charged
• Czech: emotivní — emotional; emotionally charged
• Finnish: affektiivinen — emotional; emotionally charged
• Finnish: tunteellinen — emotional; emotionally charged
• Finnish: tunnepitoinen — emotional; emotionally charged
• Polish: afektywny — emotional; emotionally charged
• Romanian: emoțional — emotional; emotionally charged
• Romanian: afectiv — emotional; emotionally charged
• Russian: эмоциона́льный (emocionálʹnyj) — emotional; emotionally charged
• Spanish: afectivo — emotional; emotionally charged