redactus

Latin

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of redigō.

Participle

redāctus (feminine redācta, neuter redāctum); first/second-declension participle

1. driven or led back
2. received

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	redāctus	redācta	redāctum		redāctī	redāctae	redācta
Genitive	redāctī	redāctae	redāctī		redāctōrum	redāctārum	redāctōrum
Dative	redāctō		redāctō		redāctīs
Accusative	redāctum	redāctam	redāctum		redāctōs	redāctās	redācta
Ablative	redāctō	redāctā	redāctō		redāctīs
Vocative	redācte	redācta	redāctum		redāctī	redāctae	redācta

Descendants

• ⇒ Catalan: redactar
• → English: redact
• ⇒ Russian: редактировать (redaktirovatʹ)
• ⇒ Spanish: redactar

Etymology 2

From redigō (“I drive, bring back, reduce to a certain state”) +‎ -tus (suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs).

Noun

redāctus m (genitive redāctūs); fourth declension

1. The action of driving, bringing back, reducing to a certain state
2. (Late Latin) yield, income

   Sempronio do, lego ex redactu fructuum oleris et porrinae, quae habeo in agro farrariorum, partem sextam. (Quintus Cervidius Scaevola, quoted in Digest, Liber 3 Responsorum)

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Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	redāctus	redāctūs
Genitive	redāctūs	redāctuum
Dative	redāctuī	redāctibus
Accusative	redāctum	redāctūs
Ablative	redāctū	redāctibus
Vocative	redāctus	redāctūs

References

• “redactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “redactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• redactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Forcellini, Egidio; Furlanetto, Giuseppe (ed.); Corradini, Francesco (ed.); and Perin, Giuseppe (ed.) (1733-1965). Lexicon Totius Latinitatis. Bologna: Arnaldo Forni. Vol. III. p. 39.