different between destination vs acta

English

Etymology

From Latin d?stin?ti?, from d?stin? (“to destine”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /d?st??ne???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

destination (plural destinations)

1. (archaic) The act of destining or appointing.
2. Purpose for which anything is destined; predetermined end, object, or use; ultimate design.
3. The place set for the end of a journey, or to which something is sent; place or point aimed at.

Usage notes

• Often used attributively to indicate desirability, as in a destination resort (a resort that is a fine, desirable destination) or destination wedding.

Derived terms

• destination board
• destination wedding

Related terms

• destinate
• destine
• destiny

Translations

Anagrams

• stannoidite

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?s.ti.na.sj??/

Noun

destination f (plural destinations)

1. destination

Further reading

• “destination” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ?cta (“register of events”), plural of ?ctum.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /?ak.t?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?ak.ta/
• Homophone: acte

Noun

acta f (plural actes)

1. act (of a parliament)

Further reading

• “acta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “acta” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.ta/
• Homophones: actas, actât

Verb

acta

1. third-person singular past historic of acter

Latin

Pronunciation

• ?cta: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?k.ta/, [?ä?kt?ä]
• ?cta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.ta/, [??kt??]
• ?ct?: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a?k.ta?/, [?ä?kt?ä?]
• ?ct?: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.ta/, [??kt??]
• acta: (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ak.ta/, [?äkt?ä]
• acta: (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ak.ta/, [??kt??]

Etymology 1

From the verb ag? (“make, do”).

Noun

?cta n pl (genitive ?ct?rum); second declension

1. acts, transactions, or proceedings (e.g., of an organization, in an academic field, of an office holder).
2. journal; register of public events; newspaper.

   Synonym: eph?meris

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Related terms

• ?ctum

Descendants

Participle

?cta

1. inflection of ?ctus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

?ct?

1. ablative feminine singular of ?ctus

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ???? (akt?).

Noun

acta f (genitive actae); first declension

1. seashore, beach
2. (figuratively, plural only) holiday

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• 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, 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.
• 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

Alternative forms

• ata

Etymology

From Latin ?cta (“register of public events”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): [?a.t?]

Noun

acta f (plural actas)

1. minute (record of meeting)

Further reading

• “acta” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ?cta (“register of events”), plural of ?ctum, from ag?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?ta/, [?a??.t?a]

Noun

acta f (plural actas)

1. certificate
2. minutes, record
3. election results

Usage notes

• The feminine noun acta is like other feminine nouns starting with a stressed a sound in that it takes the definite article el (normally reserved for masculine nouns) in the singular when there is no intervening adjective:

el acta

• However, if an adjective, even one that begins with a stressed a sound such as alta or ancha, intervenes between the article and the noun, the article reverts to la.

Further reading

• “acta” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.