auctus

Latin

Alternative forms

• avctus, autus, avtus

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯k.tus/, [ˈäu̯kt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈau̯k.tus/, [ˈäu̯kt̪us]

Etymology 1

Perfect passive participle of augeō.

Adjective

auctus (feminine aucta, neuter auctum, comparative auctior); first/second-declension adjective

1. enriched
2. enlarged
3. ample

Declension

First/second-declension adjective

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	auctus	aucta	auctum		auctī	auctae	aucta
genitive	auctī	auctae	auctī		auctōrum	auctārum	auctōrum
dative	auctō	auctae	auctō		auctīs
accusative	auctum	auctam	auctum		auctōs	auctās	aucta
ablative	auctō	auctā	auctō		auctīs
vocative	aucte	aucta	auctum		auctī	auctae	aucta

Etymology 2

augeō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns)

Noun

auctus m (genitive auctūs); fourth declension

1. increase, augmentation, abundance

Declension

Fourth-declension noun

	singular	plural
nominative	auctus	auctūs
genitive	auctūs	auctuum
dative	auctuī	auctibus
accusative	auctum	auctūs
ablative	auctū	auctibus
vocative	auctus	auctūs

References

• “auctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “auctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• auctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum