ictus

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See also: ictūs

English

Etymology

From Latin ictus (a blow), from īco (I hit, strike, or smite”; “I stab or sting).

Pronunciation

singular
plural

Noun

ictus (plural ictus or ictuses or ictusses)

  1. The pulse.
  2. (medicine) A sudden attack, blow, stroke, or seizure, as in a sunstroke, the sting of an insect, pulsation of an artery, etc.
  3. (prosody) The stress of voice laid upon an accented syllable of a word. Compare arsis.
  4. (music) In conducting, the indication of a musical event, most often the beat of the tempo or the entry of a section of the orchestra.

Usage notes

  • Rarely, the Latinate plural ictūs is found.

Derived terms

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Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ictus.

Pronunciation

Noun

ictus m (plural ictusos)

  1. (medicine, music) ictus

Further reading

Italian

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Pronunciation

Noun

ictus m (invariable)

  1. (pathology) ictus, stroke
    Synonyms: infarto cerebrale, (familiar) colpo

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From ī̆cō (to strike) +‎ -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

Noun

ictus m (genitive ictūs); fourth declension

  1. a blow, stroke, stab, thrust, bite, sting
    Synonyms: vulnus, colaphus, pulsus, plāga
    1. a striking, playing on the lyre
    2. the stroke of a wing
    3. a stroke of lightning, lightning
      Synonyms: fulmen, tonitrus
  2. (prosody, music) a beating time, a beat
  3. a beat of the pulse
  4. an attack, shot
    Synonyms: impetus, incursio, aggressio, impressiō, invasio, appetītus, assultus, occursio, oppugnātiō, incursus, concursus, vīs, petītiō, procella
Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative ictus ictūs
genitive ictūs ictuum
dative ictuī ictibus
accusative ictum ictūs
ablative ictū ictibus
vocative ictus ictūs
Descendants
  • Galician: eito, ictus
  • English: ictus, ictal
  • Portuguese: eito, icto

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of ī̆cō.

Participle

ictus (feminine icta, neuter ictum); first/second-declension participle

  1. hit, struck, blown
  2. stabbed, stung
Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

References

  • ictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ictus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ictus 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)
  • ictus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • struck by lightning: fulmine ictus

Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ictus or French ictus.

Noun

ictus n (plural ictusuri)

  1. (medicine) ictus
  2. (prosody) ictus
  3. (music) ictus

Declension

Spanish

Noun

ictus m (plural ictus)

  1. (medicine) stroke, ictus

Further reading