acts, transactions, or proceedings (e.g., of an organization, in an academic field, of an office holder).
journal; register of public events; newspaper.
Synonym:ephēmeris
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter), plural only.
Related terms
āctum
Descendants
Participle
ācta
inflection of āctus:
nominative/vocative feminine singular
nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
āctā
ablative feminine singular of āctus
Etymology 2
From Ancient Greekἀκτή(aktḗ).
Noun
actaf (genitiveactae); first declension
seashore, beach
(figuratively, plural only) holiday
Declension
First-declension noun.
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)
acta in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
“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 Latinācta(“register of public events”).
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: ac‧ta
Noun
actaf (pluralactas)
Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) ofata. Still used in countries where the agreement hasn't come into effect; may occur as a sporadic misspelling.
Romanian
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Latinacta.
Noun
actan (uncountable)
collection of documents
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Latinācta(“register of events”), plural of āctum, from agō.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /ˈaɡta/[ˈaɣ̞.t̪a]
Rhymes: -aɡta
Syllabification: ac‧ta
Noun
actaf (pluralactas)
certificate
minutes, record
election results
Usage notes
Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.
el acta, un acta
They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.
Further reading
“acta”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014