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5-letter words (3 found)

CUITS,CUTIS,ICTUS,

4-letter words (9 found)

CIST,CITS,CUIT,CUTS,SCUT,SUIT,TICS,TUIS,UTIS,

3-letter words (11 found)

CIS,CIT,CUT,ITS,SIC,SIT,SUI,TIC,TIS,TUI,UTS,

2-letter words (7 found)

IS,IT,SI,ST,TI,US,UT,

You can make 30 words from ictus according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of ictus

ictus citus itcus ticus ctius tcius icuts ciuts iucts uicts cuits ucits itucs tiucs iutcs uitcs tuics utics ctuis tcuis cutis uctis tucis utcis ictsu citsu itcsu ticsu ctisu tcisu icstu cistu isctu sictu csitu scitu itscu tiscu istcu sitcu tsicu sticu ctsiu tcsiu cstiu sctiu tsciu stciu icust ciust iucst uicst cuist ucist icsut cisut iscut sicut csiut sciut iusct uisct isuct siuct usict suict cusit ucsit csuit scuit uscit sucit itusc tiusc iutsc uitsc tuisc utisc itsuc tisuc istuc situc tsiuc stiuc iustc uistc isutc siutc usitc suitc tusic utsic tsuic stuic ustic sutic ctusi tcusi cutsi uctsi tucsi utcsi ctsui tcsui cstui sctui tscui stcui custi ucsti csuti scuti uscti sucti tusci utsci tsuci stuci ustci sutci

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Definitions and meaning of ictus

ictus

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) [ˈik.tus]

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

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/, [ˈɪkt̪ʊs̠]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈikt̪us]

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
    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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

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

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