actum

Latin

Etymology

From agō (“make, do”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaːk.tum/, [ˈäːkt̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.tum/, [ˈäkt̪um]

• audio (ecclesiastical)

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Noun

(deprecated template usage) āctum

1. negotiation, deal, treaty (usu. for peace)

   Titus Livius, The History of Rome (Book 2, Chapter 18):

   De pace actum est. ― The negotiation for peace is carried out.

2. accusative singular of āctus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) āctum

1. nominative neuter singular of āctus
2. accusative masculine singular of āctus
3. accusative neuter singular of āctus
4. vocative neuter singular of āctus

Verb

(deprecated template usage) āctum

1. accusative supine of agō

Related terms

• ācta
• āctus
• agō

References

• “actum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “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)