actus

From Latin āctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”).

actus (plural acti)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35½ m)
2. (historical units of measure) A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about ⅛ ha)

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

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

• scuta

actus f

1. plural of actu

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈaːk.tus/, [ˈaːk.tʊs]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.tus/

• audio (ecclesiastical)

  (file)

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

āctus m (feminine ācta, neuter āctum); first/second declension

1. made, done, having been done.

First/second declension.

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

āctus m (genitive āctūs); 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 35½ m)
6. (historical units of measure) An actus: a former Roman unit of area equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about ⅛ ha)

Fourth declension.

• (unit of length): pes (¹⁄₁₂₀ actus)
• (unit of area): decempeda (¹⁄₁₄₄ actus); clima (¼ acti); iugerum (2 acti); heredium (4 acti); centuria (400 acti); saltus (1600 acti)

• āctuōsus
• āctūtum

• ācta

• 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, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • an act: actus
    
  • (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) rest after toil is sweet: acti labores iucundi (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
    
• 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