different between actus vs accus

English

Etymology

From Latin ?ctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”). Doublet of act.

Noun

actus (plural actus or acti)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
2. (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)

Meronyms

• (units of area): juger, jugerum (2 acti)

References

• "actus, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• scuta

French

Noun

actus f

1. plural of actu

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?k.tus/, [?ä?kt??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.tus/, [??kt?us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of ag? (“make, do”).

Participle

?ctus (feminine ?cta, neuter ?ctum); first/second-declension participle

1. made, done, having been done.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Etymology 2

From ag? (“do, make, drive”) +? -tus (“suffix forming fourth declension action nouns from verbs”).

Noun

?ctus m (genitive ?ct?s); fourth declension

1. act, action, doing, deed
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) An actus: a former Roman unit of length equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)
6. (historical units of measure) An actus: a former Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Meronyms

• (unit of length): p?s (¹?₁₂₀ ?ct?s)
• (unit of area): decempeda (¹?₁₄₄ ?ct?s); clima (¹?₄ ?ct?s); iugerum (2 ?ct?s); h?r?dium (4 ?ct?s); centuria (400 ?ct?s); saltus (1600 ?ct?s)

Derived terms

• ?ctu?sus
• ?ct?tum

Related terms

• ?cta

Descendants

References

• actus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• actus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• actus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• actus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• actus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• actus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Adjective

accus (not comparable)

1. Abbreviation of accusative.

Old Irish

Verb

·accus

1. first-person singular future prototonic of ad·cí

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