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Actus

ACT'US

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Noun.
Among the Romans, a measure in building equal to 120 Roman feet. In agriculture, the length of one furrow.

Definition 2024

actus

actus

English

Noun

actus ‎(plural acti)

  1. An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 35.5 metres.

French

Noun

actus f

  1. plural of actu

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of agō ‎(“make, do”).

Participle

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

  1. made, done, having been done.
Inflection

First/second declension.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
nominative āctus ācta āctum āctī āctae ācta
genitive āctī āctae āctī āctōrum āctārum āctōrum
dative āctō āctō āctīs
accusative āctum āctam āctum āctōs āctās ācta
ablative āctō āctā āctō āctīs
vocative ācte ācta āctum āctī āctae ācta

Etymology 2

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

Noun

āctus m ‎(genitive āctūs); fourth declension

  1. act, action, doing, deed
  2. performance, behavior
  3. path, cart track
Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative āctus āctūs
genitive āctūs āctuum
dative āctuī āctibus
accusative āctum āctūs
ablative āctū āctibus
vocative āctus āctūs
Derived terms
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Descendants

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 Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • Félix Gaffiot (1934), “actus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
  • Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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

Etymology

Latin

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