English

Noun

ictus ‎(plural ictus or ictuses or ictūs)

1. the pulse
2. (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
3. (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
4. (music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.

Anagrams

• cutis

Italian

Noun

ictus m ‎(invariable)

1. (pathology) ictus, stroke

Synonyms

• infarto cerebrale
• (familiar): colpo

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īcō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈɪk.tʊs]

Participle

īctus m ‎(feminine īcta, neuter īctum); first/second declension

1. hit, struck
2. stabbed, stung

Inflection

First/second declension.

Noun

ictus m ‎(genitive ictūs); fourth declension

1. a blow, stroke, stab, thrust, bite, sting
   1. a striking, playing on the lyre
   2. the stroke of a wing
   3. a stroke of lightning, lightning
2. (prosody, music) a beating time, a beat
3. a beat of the pulse
4. an attack, shot

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Descendants

• English: ictal
• Portguese: eito, icto

References

• ictus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ictus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ICTUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ictus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • struck by lightning: fulmine ictus
    

Spanish

Noun

ictus m ‎(plural ictus)

1. (medicine) stroke, ictus