acta

See also: ACTA

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈak.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈak.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, 2024
• “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.

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French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: actas, actât

Verb

acta

1. third-person singular past historic of acter

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Latin

Etymology 1

From the verb agō (“make, do”).

Noun

ācta n pl (genitive āctōrum); 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.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	ācta
Genitive	āctōrum
Dative	āctīs
Accusative	ācta
Ablative	āctīs
Vocative	ācta

Synonyms

• (journal): ephēmeris

Related terms

• āctum

Descendants

• Catalan: acta
• English: act
• Galician: acta
• German: Akte
• Portuguese: acta, ata
• Spanish: acta

Participle

(deprecated template usage) ācta

1. nominative feminine singular of āctus
2. nominative neuter plural of āctus
3. accusative neuter plural of āctus
4. vocative feminine singular of āctus
5. vocative neuter plural of āctus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) āctā

1. ablative feminine singular of āctus

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ἀκτή (aktḗ)

Noun

acta f (genitive actae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	acta	actae
Genitive	actae	actārum
Dative	actae	actīs
Accusative	actam	actās
Ablative	actā	actīs
Vocative	acta	actae

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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.
  • (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) 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
    
• “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

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• ata

Etymology

From Latin ācta (“register of public events”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈa.tɐ]

Noun

acta f (plural s)

1. minute (record of meeting)

Further reading

• Template:R:Priberam

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Spanish

Etymology

From Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum, from agō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡta/ [ˈaɣ̞.t̪a]

Noun

acta f (plural actas)

1. certificate
2. minutes
3. election results

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el acta, un acta

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

Further reading

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