Latin

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Etymology

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From agō (make, do).

Pronunciation

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Participle

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āctum

  1. nominative neuter singular of āctus
    actum est de aliquoIt is over for someone, the fate of someone is sealed
  2. inflection of āctus:
    1. accusative masculine/neuter singular
    2. vocative neuter singular

Verb

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āctum

  1. accusative supine of agō

Noun

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āctum

  1. accusative singular of āctus
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References

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  • actum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • actum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
  • actum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • actum 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)
  • actum 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) 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) to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)