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Latin
Etymology
From agō (“make, do”).
Pronunciation
Participle
āctum
- nominative neuter singular of āctus
- actum est de aliquo ― It is over for someone, the fate of someone is sealed
- inflection of āctus:
- accusative masculine/neuter singular
- vocative neuter singular
Verb
āctum
- accusative supine of agō
Noun
āctum
- accusative singular of āctus
References
- “actum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- actum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- “actum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- actum 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)
- actum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) I'm undone! it's all up with me: perii! actum est de me! (Ter. Ad. 3. 2. 26)
- (ambiguous) to have all one's trouble for nothing: rem actam or simply actum agere (proverb.)
- (ambiguous) rest after toil is sweet: acti labores iucundi (proverb.)
- (ambiguous) it's all over with me; I'm a lost man: actum est de me
- (ambiguous) to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)