acta

See also: ACTA and actă

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈak.tə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈak.ta]
• Homophone: acte

Noun

acta f (plural actes)

1. act (of a parliament)

Further reading

• “acta” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “acta”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “acta” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “acta” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.ta/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophones: actas, actât

Verb

acta

1. third-person singular past historic of acter

Latin

Pronunciation

• ācta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaːk.ta/, [ˈäːkt̪ä]
• ācta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]
• āctā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈaːk.taː/, [ˈäːkt̪äː]
• āctā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]
• acta: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]
• acta: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈak.ta/, [ˈäkt̪ä]

Etymology 1

From the verb agō (“make, do”).

Noun

ācta n pl (genitive āctōrum); second declension

1. acts, transactions, or proceedings (e.g., of an organization, in an academic field, of an office holder).
2. journal; register of public events; newspaper.

   Synonym: ephēmeris

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.

	plural
nominative	ācta
genitive	āctōrum
dative	āctīs
accusative	ācta
ablative	āctīs
vocative	ācta

Related terms

• āctum

Descendants

• Catalan: acta
• English: act
• Galician: acta
• German: Akte
• → Indonesian: akta (learned)
• → Malay: akta (learned)
• → Norwegian Bokmål: akt
• Portuguese: ata
• Spanish: acta

Participle

ācta

1. inflection of āctus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

āctā

1. ablative feminine singular of āctus

Etymology 2

From Ancient Greek ἀκτή (aktḗ).

Noun

acta f (genitive actae); first declension

1. seashore, beach
2. (figuratively, plural only) holiday

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	acta	actae
genitive	actae	actārum
dative	actae	actīs
accusative	actam	actās
ablative	actā	actīs
vocative	acta	actae

References

• “acta”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “acta”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acta 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)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “acta”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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) it's all over with me; I'm a lost man: actum est de me
    
  • (ambiguous) a good conscience: conscientia recta, recte facti (factorum), virtutis, bene actae vitae, rectae voluntatis
    
  • (ambiguous) to declare a magistrate's decisions null and void: acta rescindere, dissolvere (Phil. 13. 3. 5)
    
  • (ambiguous) amnesty (ἀμνηρτία): ante actarum (praeteritarum) rerum oblivio or simply oblivio
    
• “acta”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “acta”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ācta (“register of public events”).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ac‧ta

Noun

acta f (plural actas)

1. Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1990 in Portugal) of ata. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin acta.

Noun

acta n (uncountable)

1. collection of documents

Declension

declension of acta (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) acta	actaul
genitive/dative	(unui) acta	actaului
vocative	actaule

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ācta (“register of events”), plural of āctum, from agō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaɡta/ [ˈaɣ̞.t̪a]

• Audio (Venezuela):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -aɡta
• Syllabification: ac‧ta

Noun

acta f (plural actas)

1. certificate
2. minutes, record
3. election results

Usage notes

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like acta take the singular definite article el (otherwise reserved for masculine nouns) instead of the usual la: el acta. This includes the contracted forms al and del (instead of a la and de la, respectively): al acta, del acta.

These nouns also usually take the indefinite article un that is otherwise used with masculine nouns (although the standard feminine form una is also permitted): un acta or una acta. The same is true with determiners algún/alguna and ningún/ninguna, as well as for numerals ending with 1 (e.g., veintiún/veintiuna).

However, if another word intervenes between the article and the noun, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (la, una etc.) must be used: la mejor acta, una buena acta.

• If an adjective follows the noun, it must agree with the noun's gender regardless of the article used: el acta única, un(a) acta buena.
• In the plural, the usual feminine singular articles and determiners (las, unas etc.) are always used.

Further reading

• “acta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28