actus

English

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value). Doublet of act.

Noun

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  1. (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
  2. (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)

Meronyms

References

  • "actus, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

actus f

  1. plural of actu

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of agō (make, do). Compare Sanskrit अक्त (akta, driven).

Participle

āctus (feminine ācta, neuter āctum); first/second-declension participle

  1. made, done, having been done.
Declension

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Etymology 2

From agō (I do, make, drive) + -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).

Noun

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  1. act, action, doing, deed
    Synonyms: āctiō, factum, rēs, gestum, facinus
    actum est de aliquoIt is over for someone, the fate of someone is sealed
  2. performance, behavior
  3. a cattle drive, the act of driving cattle or a cart
  4. a cattle path or narrow cart track
  5. (historical units of measure) actus (a former Roman unit of length equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m))
  6. (historical units of measure) actus (Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value))
Declension

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Meronyms
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Aragonese: acto
  • Asturian: actu
  • Catalan: acte
  • Corsican: attu
  • French: acte
    • Romanian: act
  • Friulian: at
  • Galician: acto
  • German: Akt
    • Norwegian Bokmål: akt
    • Polish: akt (semantic loan)
  • Middle Irish: acht
  • Italian: atto
  • Neapolitan: atto
  • Norwegian Bokmål: akt
  • Occitan: acte
  • Old French: acte
    • English: act
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: auto
  • Portuguese: ato
  • Romansch: act
  • Russian: акт m (akt)
  • Sardinian: atu, attu
  • Sicilian: attu
  • Spanish: auto
  • Spanish: acto
  • Swedish: akt
  • Venetian: ato

References

  • actus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • actus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • actus in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • actus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • actus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • an act: actus
    • (ambiguous) I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
    • (ambiguous) to have all one's trouble for nothing: rem actam or simply actum agere (proverb.)
    • (ambiguous) rest after toil is sweet: acti labores iucundi (proverb.)
    • (ambiguous) it's all over with me; I'm a lost man: actum est de me
    • (ambiguous) a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
    • (ambiguous) to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)
    • (ambiguous) amnesty (ἀμνηρτία): ante actarum (praeteritarum) rerum oblivio or simply oblivio
  • actus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • actus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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