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Noun

acta f ‎(plural actes)

1. act (of a parliament)

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: actas, actât

Verb

acta

1. third-person singular past historic of acter

Latin

Etymology 1

From the verb agō ‎(“make, do”).

Noun

ācta n ‎(genitive āctōrum); second declension

1. journal, register of public events.

Declension

Second declension.

Synonyms

• (journal): ephēmeris

Related terms

• āctum

Descendants

• Catalan: acta
• English: act
• Spanish: acta
• Portuguese: acta, ata

Participle

ācta

1. nominative feminine singular of āctus
2. nominative neuter plural of āctus
3. accusative neuter plural of āctus
4. vocative feminine singular of āctus
5. vocative neuter plural of āctus

āctā

1. ablative feminine singular of āctus

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ἀκτή ‎(aktḗ)

Noun

acta f ‎(genitive actae); first declension

1. seashore, beach
2. (figuratively, plural only) holiday

Declension

First declension.

References

• acta in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acta in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ACTA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “acta”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (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) 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
    
• acta in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acta in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin ācta ‎(“register of public events”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [ˈa.tɐ]

Noun

acta f (plural actas)

1. minute (record of meeting)

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ācta ‎(“register of events”), plural of āctum, from agō.

Noun

acta f ‎(plural actas)

1. certificate
2. minutes
3. election results

Usage notes

• The feminine noun acta is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el acta

• However, if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.