effort

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

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

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

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.

• struggle

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

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

• IPA^(key): /e.fɔʁ/
• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

effort m (plural efforts)

1. effort

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

• efforcer

• → Romanian: efort

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

• offert

Old French.

effort m (plural effors)

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

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

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

1. Alternative form of esfort