ictus

See also: ictūs

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ictus (“a blow”), from īco (“I hit, strike, or smite”; “I stab or sting”).

Pronunciation

singular

• enPR: ĭkʹtəs, IPA^(key): /ˈɪktəs/

plural

• enPR: ĭkʹto͞os, IPA^(key): /ˈɪktuːs/

Noun

ictus (plural ictus or ictuses)

1. The pulse.
2. (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
3. (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
4. (music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.

Derived terms

• ictogenic

Usage notes

• Rarely, the Latinate plural ictūs is found.

Anagrams

• cutis, ustic

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Italian

Noun

ictus m (uncountable)

1. (pathology) ictus, stroke

Synonyms

• infarto cerebrale
• (familiar): colpo

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Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īcō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈɪkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈikt̪us]

Participle

ictus (feminine icta, neuter ictum); first/second-declension participle

1. hit, struck
2. stabbed, stung

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	ictus	icta	ictum		ictī	ictae	icta
Genitive	ictī	ictae	ictī		ictōrum	ictārum	ictōrum
Dative	ictō		ictō		ictīs
Accusative	ictum	ictam	ictum		ictōs	ictās	icta
Ablative	ictō	ictā	ictō		ictīs
Vocative	icte	icta	ictum		ictī	ictae	icta

Noun

ictus m (genitive ictūs); fourth declension

1. a blow, stroke, stab, thrust, bite, sting
   1. a striking, playing on the lyre
   2. the stroke of a wing
   3. a stroke of lightning, lightning
2. (prosody, music) a beating time, a beat
3. a beat of the pulse
4. an attack, shot

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ictus	ictūs
Genitive	ictūs	ictuum
Dative	ictuī	ictibus
Accusative	ictum	ictūs
Ablative	ictū	ictibus
Vocative	ictus	ictūs

Descendants

• English: ictal
• Portguese: eito, icto

References

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

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Spanish

Noun

ictus m (plural ictus)

1. (medicine) stroke, ictus