efektI

Efekti is a word found in several European languages used to mean the effect or effects. In Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian, efekti is the plural form of efekt, referring to multiple effects. In Albanian, efekti is the definite singular form of efekt, meaning “the effect.” The term traces back to Latin effectus and has cognates in Romance and Germanic languages, with English effect, Spanish efecto, French effet, and German Effekt shaping its relatives.

Across disciplines, efekti denotes the result or consequence of a cause. In scientific contexts it refers to causal effects, in medicine to treatment effects and the possibility of side effects, in economics to policy or market effects, and in environmental studies to ecological effects. The word is also used in everyday language to describe outcomes of actions, events, or processes. Variants in spelling and form reflect the grammatical systems and orthographic traditions of the languages in which it appears.