effort

English Online Dictionary. What means effort‎? What does effort mean?

English

Etymology

From Middle French effort, from Old French esfort, deverbal of esforcier (“to force, exert”), from Vulgar Latin *exfortiō, from Latin ex + fortis (“strong”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɛfət/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛfɚt/

Noun

effort (plural efforts)

1. The work involved in performing an activity; exertion.
2. An endeavor.
3. A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion.

Synonyms

• struggle

Derived terms

Collocations

Translations

Verb

effort (third-person singular simple present efforts, present participle efforting, simple past and past participle efforted)

1. (uncommon, intransitive) To make an effort.
2. (obsolete, transitive) To strengthen, fortify or stimulate

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French esfort, from esforcier; morphologically, deverbal from efforcer. Compare Spanish esfuerzo, Catalan esforç, Portuguese esforço, Italian sforzo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e.fɔʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

Noun

effort m (plural efforts)

1. effort

Derived terms

• après l’effort, le réconfort
• effort de guerre
• loi du moindre effort

Related terms

• efforcer

Descendants

• → Romanian: efort
• → Turkish: efor

Further reading

• “effort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• offert

Middle French

Etymology

Old French.

Noun

effort m (plural effors)

1. strength; might; force
2. (military) unit; division

References

• effort on Dictionnaire du Moyen Français (1330–1500) (in French)

Old French

Noun

effort oblique singular, m (oblique plural efforz or effortz, nominative singular efforz or effortz, nominative plural effort)

1. Alternative form of esfort