acte

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Catalan

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin actus.

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Noun

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acte m (plural actes)

  1. act

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɑk.tə/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: ac‧te
  • Rhymes: -ɑktə

Noun

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acte f (plural acten or actes, diminutive actetje n)

  1. Superseded spelling of akte.

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin actus.

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Noun

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acte m (plural actes)

  1. act

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Latin

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Etymology 1

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From Ancient Greek ἀκτῆ (aktê), late form of ἀκτέα (aktéa), of unknown ultimate origin.

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Noun

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actē f (genitive actēs); first declension

  1. a danewort, dwarf-elder
Declension
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First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative actē actae
Genitive actēs actārum
Dative actae actīs
Accusative actēn actās
Ablative actē actīs
Vocative actē actae

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

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Participle

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ācte

  1. vocative masculine singular of āctus

References

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  • acte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • acte 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)
  • acte”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
  • acte”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • acte”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • acte”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Lithuanian

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Noun

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actè

  1. locative singular of ãctas (vinegar)

Noun

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ãcte

  1. vocative singular of ãctas (vinegar)

Matsés

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Noun

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acte

  1. water

References

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  • Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonía: Mayoruna (1994), page 30
  • David W. Fleck, Causation in Matses, in The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old French act, from Latin ācta, plural of āctus.

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Noun

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acte (plural actes)

  1. An act; an action.
  2. A written record of acts.
  3. A law; a statute.
  4. (pathology, medicine) action, function
  5. (with in or into) actuality
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Descendants

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  • English: act
  • Scots: ack, akk, ac', act, actt, auct, accke, aick, akk (older)
  • Yola: acte

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Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English acte, from Old French act, from Latin ācta.

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Noun

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acte

  1. act
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 4-5:
      crave na dicke luckie acte t'uck neicher th' Eccellencie,
      beg leave at this favourable opportunity to approach your Excellency,

References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114