āctus

āct-us lat.'gemacht, getan'; 'Akt, Tat, Handlung' (jeweils vollendet oder im Ganzen)

‘Bewegung, Handlung, Darstellung, Abschnitt’, s. Akt

Pronunciation (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaːk.tus/, [ˈäːkt̪ʊs̠], (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.tus/, [ˈäkt̪us]

Etymologie 1

Perfektes Passivpartizip von agō „machen, tun“. Vergleiche Sanskrit अक्त (akta, „getrieben“).

Partizip āctus (weiblich ācta, sächlich āctum); Partizip erster/zweiter Deklination

1. gemacht, getan, getan worden.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

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

Etymologie 2

Von agō „Ich mache, tue, fahre“ +‎ -tus (Suffix, das Aktionssubstantive der vierten Deklination aus Verben bildet).

Noun

āctus m (genitive āctūs); fourth declension

1. act, action, doing, deed [ synonyms ▲]

   Synonyms: āctiō, factum, rēs, gestum, facinus

   actum est de aliquo ― It 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 (a former Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha))

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	āctus	āctūs
Genitive	āctūs	āctuum
Dative	āctuī	āctibus
Accusative	āctum	āctūs
Ablative	āctū	āctibus
Vocative	āctus	āctūs