Learned borrowing fromLatinactus.
acte m (pluralactes)
- act
acte f (pluralactenoractes,diminutiveactetje n)
- Superseded spelling ofakte.
Borrowed fromLatinactus.
acte m (pluralactes)
- act
FromAncient Greekἀκτῆ(aktê), late form ofἀκτέα(aktéa), of unknown ultimate origin.
actē f (genitiveactēs);first declension
- adanewort,dwarf-elder
First-declension noun (Greek-type).
ācte
- vocativemasculinesingular ofāctus
- “acte”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "acte", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “acte”, inThe Perseus Project (1999)Perseus Encyclopedia[1]
- “acte”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “acte”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1848),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
- “acte”, inWilliam Smith, editor (1854, 1857),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
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actè
- locativesingular ofãctas(“vinegar”)
ãcte
- vocativesingular ofãctas(“vinegar”)
acte
- water
- Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonía: Mayoruna (1994), page 30
- David W. Fleck,Causation in Matses, inThe Grammar of Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation, edited by Masayoshi Shibatani
Borrowed fromOld Frenchact, fromLatinācta, plural ofāctus.
acte (pluralactes)
- Anact; anaction.
- A writtenrecord ofacts.
- Alaw; astatute.
- (pathology, medicine)action,function
- (within orinto)actuality
FromMiddle Englishacte, fromOld Frenchact, fromLatinācta.
acte
- act
1867,CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page114, lines4-5:crave na dicke luckieacte t'uck neicher th' Eccellencie,- beg leave at this favourableopportunity to approach your Excellency,
- 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, published1867,page114
