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4-letter words (1 found)

ACTA,

3-letter words (3 found)

ACT,CAA,CAT,

2-letter words (3 found)

AA,AT,TA,

You can make 7 words from acta according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 4 letters words made out of acta

acta cata atca taca ctaa tcaa acat caat aact aact caat acat atac taac aatc aatc taac atac ctaa tcaa cata acta taca atca

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Definitions and meaning of acta

acta

Catalan

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈak.tə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [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/
  • Homophones: actas, actât

Verb

acta

  1. third-person singular past historic of acter

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Related terms
  • āctum
Descendants

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.

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 Latin ācta (register of public events).

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: ac‧ta

Noun

acta f (plural actas)

  1. Pre-reform spelling (until Brazil 1943/Portugal 1990) 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

Spanish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaɡta/ [ˈaɣ̞.t̪a]
  • 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 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

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