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Latin
Etymology
From agō (“to act”) + -īvus. In the grammatical sense, it is a calque of Ancient Greek ἐνεργητικός (energētikós).
Pronunciation
Adjective
āctīvus (feminine āctīva, neuter āctīvum, adverb āctīvē); first/second-declension adjective
- active
- practical
- (grammar) active (of a verb)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “activus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- activus 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)
- activus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
- (ambiguous) to be some one's favourite: in amore et deliciis esse alicui (active in deliciis habere aliquem)