ictus

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

singular

• (UK) enPR: ĭkʹtəs, IPA^(key): /ˈɪktəs/

plural

• (UK) enPR: ĭkʹto͞os, IPA^(key): /ˈɪktuːs/

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

• ictogenic

Anagrams

• cutis, ustic

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ictus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian)

Noun

ictus m (plural ictusos)

1. (medicine, music) ictus

Further reading

• “ictus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Italian

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

ictus

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/
• Rhymes: -iktus
• Hyphenation: ìc‧tus

Noun

ictus m (invariable)

1. (pathology) ictus, stroke

   Synonyms: infarto cerebrale, (familiar) colpo

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īcō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/,

Participle

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

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

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Noun

ictus m (genitive ictūs); fourth declension

1. a blow, stroke, stab, thrust, bite, sting

   Synonyms: vulnus, colaphus, pulsus, plāga

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.25:

     Ictu scorpionis

     By a blow of a scorpion

   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.

Descendants

• Galician: eito, → ictus
• → English: ictal
• Portuguese: eito, → icto

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

• cutis

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

• “ictus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014