acte

See also: acté

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin actus.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

acte m (plural actes)

1. act

Derived terms

• a l'acte
• acte carnal
• acte de fe
• acte jurídic
• acte sacramental
• acte sexual
• en l'acte
• entreacte
• fer acte de presència

 

Related terms

• acció
• acta
• actiu

 

Further reading

• “acte” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “acte”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “acte” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “acte” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑk.tə/

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• Hyphenation: ac‧te
• Rhymes: -ɑktə

Noun

acte f (plural acten or actes, diminutive actetje n)

1. Superseded spelling of akte.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin actus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akt/

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Noun

acte m (plural actes)

1. act

Derived terms

• acte de décès
• acte de foi
• acte de naissance
• acte manqué
• dont acte
• faire acte de présence
• passage à l’acte
• passer à l’acte
• prendre acte

 

Related terms

• action
• agir

Further reading

• “acte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Etymology 1

From Ancient Greek ἀκτῆ (aktê), late form of ἀκτέα (aktéa), of unknown ultimate origin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈak.teː/, [ˈäkt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.te/, [ˈäkt̪e]

Noun

actē f (genitive actēs); first declension

1. a danewort, dwarf-elder

Declension

First-declension noun (Greek-type).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	actē	actae
Genitive	actēs	actārum
Dative	actae	actīs
Accusative	actēn	actās
Ablative	actē	actīs
Vocative	actē	actae

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaːk.te/, [ˈäːkt̪ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.te/, [ˈäkt̪e]

Participle

ācte

1. vocative masculine singular of āctus

References

• “acte”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acte 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)
• “acte”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
• “acte”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “acte”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• “acte”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

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Noun

actè

1. locative singular of ãctas (“vinegar”)

Noun

ãcte

1. vocative singular of ãctas (“vinegar”)

Matsés

Noun

acte

1. water

References

• Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonía: Mayoruna (1994), page 30
• David W. Fleck, Causation in Matses, in The Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, edited by Masayoshi Shibatani

Middle English

Alternative forms

• act

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French act, from Latin ācta, plural of āctus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈakt(ə)/

Noun

acte (plural actes)

1. An act; an action.
2. A written record of acts.
3. A law; a statute.
4. (pathology, medicine) action, function
5. (with in or into) actuality

Related terms

• accion
• actour
• actual
• actyf

Descendants

• English: act
• Scots: ack, akk, ac'; act, actt, auct, accke, aick, akk (older)
• Yola: acte

References

• “act(e, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English acte, from Old French act, from Latin ācta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /akt/

Noun

acte

1. act
   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 4-5:

     crave na dicke luckie acte t'uck neicher th' Eccellencie,

     beg leave at this favourable opportunity to approach your Excellency,

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114