ictus
See also: ictūs
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin ictus (“a blow”), from īco (“I hit, strike, or smite”; “I stab or sting”).
Pronunciation edit
- singular
- plural
Noun edit
ictus (plural ictus or ictuses or ictusses)
- The pulse.
- (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
- (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
- (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.
Usage notes edit
- Rarely, the Latinate plural ictūs is found.
Derived terms edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ictus.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ictus m (plural ictusos)
Further reading edit
- “ictus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Italian edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
ictus m (invariable)
- (pathology) ictus, stroke
- Synonyms: infarto cerebrale, (familiar) colpo
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of īcō.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈɪkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈikt̪us]
Participle edit
ictus (feminine icta, neuter ictum); first/second-declension participle
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | ictus | icta | ictum | ictī | ictae | icta | |
Genitive | ictī | ictae | ictī | ictōrum | ictārum | ictōrum | |
Dative | ictō | ictō | ictīs | ||||
Accusative | ictum | ictam | ictum | ictōs | ictās | icta | |
Ablative | ictō | ictā | ictō | ictīs | |||
Vocative | icte | icta | ictum | ictī | ictae | icta |
Noun edit
ictus m (genitive ictūs); fourth declension
- a blow, stroke, stab, thrust, bite, sting
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:
- Ictu scorpionis
- By a blow of a scorpion
- Ictu scorpionis
- (prosody, music) a beating time, a beat
- a beat of the pulse
- an attack, shot
Declension edit
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ictus | ictūs |
Genitive | ictūs | ictuum |
Dative | ictuī | ictibus |
Accusative | ictum | ictūs |
Ablative | ictū | ictibus |
Vocative | ictus | ictūs |
Descendants edit
References edit
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- struck by lightning: fulmine ictus
- struck by lightning: fulmine ictus
Anagrams edit
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin ictus or French ictus.
Noun edit
ictus n (plural ictusuri)
Declension edit
Declension of ictus
singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) ictus | ictusul | (niște) ictusuri | ictusurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) ictus | ictusului | (unor) ictusuri | ictusurilor |
vocative | ictusule | ictusurilor |
Spanish edit
Noun edit
ictus m (plural ictus)
Further reading edit
- “ictus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014