pactum

Latin

Noun

pactum n (genitive pactī); second declension

1. agreement, bargain
2. pact

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pactum	pacta
Genitive	pactī	pactōrum
Dative	pactō	pactīs
Accusative	pactum	pacta
Ablative	pactō	pactīs
Vocative	pactum	pacta

Descendants

• Bulgarian: пакт (pakt)
• Catalan: pati
• Danish: pagt
• English: pact
• French: pacte
• Friulian: pat
• Galician: peito, pacto

• German: Pacht
• Italian: patto
• Occitan: pati
• Polish: pakt
• Portuguese: pacto, pauta
• Russian: пакт (pakt)
• Spanish: pacto, pauta, patio (possibly)

References

• “pactum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pactum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pactum 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)
• pactum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.