Noun: effective
| Singular | effective |
| Plural | effectives |
Sample Sentences
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The Army of the West reached Corinth sometime after the battle of Shiloh. We were 15,000 effectives, and brought Beauregard's effective force up to 45,000 men. [1876, Dabney Herndon Maury; Southern Historical Society Papers: Volume 2, Number 4, Recollections of the Elkhorn Campaign:]
Nouns inflected like effective
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
5. Proto-Italic *eks
6. Latin ex
7. Latin ex-
8. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-
9. Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁k-
10. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
11. Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁kyéti
12. Proto-Italic *θakjō
13. Proto-Italic *fakjō
14. Latin faciō
15. Latin efficiō
16. Proto-Indo-European *-wós
17. Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
18. Latin -īvus
19. Latin effectīvusbor.
20. French effectifder.
21. English effective
22. From French effectif, from Latin effectīvus (“productive; effective”), from efficiō (“to make; to bring about”), equivalent to effect + -ive. See: French Nouns '
effectif', Latin Nouns '
effectīvus'.