Latin

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Etymology

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From āctus, āctūs (action, deed) +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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āctuārius (feminine āctuāria, neuter āctuārium); first/second-declension adjective

  1. swift, agile, nimble

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative āctuārius āctuāria āctuārium āctuāriī āctuāriae āctuāria
genitive āctuāriī āctuāriae āctuāriī āctuāriōrum āctuāriārum āctuāriōrum
dative āctuāriō āctuāriae āctuāriō āctuāriīs
accusative āctuārium āctuāriam āctuārium āctuāriōs āctuāriās āctuāria
ablative āctuāriō āctuāriā āctuāriō āctuāriīs
vocative āctuārie āctuāria āctuārium āctuāriī āctuāriae āctuāria

Derived terms

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Noun

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āctuārius m (genitive āctuāriī or āctuārī); second declension

  1. scribe, amanuensis, shorthand writer, record-keeper, bookkeeper, administrator

Declension

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Second-declension noun.

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

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  • English: actuary
    • Portuguese: atuário
  • French: actuaire
  • Italian: attuario
  • Romanian: actuar
  • Sicilian: attuaru
  • Spanish: actuario

References

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  • actuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • actuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • actuarius 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)
  • actuarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) a cutter: navis actuaria
  • actuarius”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray