acta
Catalan edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acta f (plural actes)
- act (of a parliament)
Further reading edit
- “acta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “acta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “acta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “acta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
acta
- third-person singular past historic of acter
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- ācta: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaːk.ta/, [ˈäːkt̪ä]
- ācta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]
- āctā: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈaːk.taː/, [ˈäːkt̪äː]
- āctā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]
- acta: (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]
- acta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]
Etymology 1 edit
From the verb agō (“make, do”).
Noun edit
ācta n pl (genitive āctōrum); second declension
- acts, transactions, or proceedings (e.g., of an organization, in an academic field, of an office holder).
- journal; register of public events; newspaper.
- Synonym: ephēmeris
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
Case | Plural |
---|---|
Nominative | ācta |
Genitive | āctōrum |
Dative | āctīs |
Accusative | ācta |
Ablative | āctīs |
Vocative | ācta |
Related terms edit
Descendants edit
Participle edit
ācta
- inflection of āctus:
Participle edit
āctā
Etymology 2 edit
From Ancient Greek ἀκτή (aktḗ).
Noun edit
acta f (genitive actae); first declension
- seashore, beach
- (figuratively, plural only) holiday
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | acta | actae |
Genitive | actae | actārum |
Dative | actae | actīs |
Accusative | actam | actās |
Ablative | actā | actīs |
Vocative | acta | actae |
References edit
- “acta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “acta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- acta 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)
- acta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- (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) 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
- (ambiguous) I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
- “acta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “acta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ācta (“register of public events”).
Pronunciation edit
- Hyphenation: ac‧ta
Noun edit
acta f (plural actas)
- Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) of ata. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Romanian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Latin acta.
Noun edit
acta n (uncountable)
Declension edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum, from agō.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
acta f (plural actas)
Usage notes edit
- Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
- el acta, un acta
- They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Further reading edit
- “acta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014