# acta
## Catalan
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

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

### Noun

acta f (plural actes)
* 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, 2025
* “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: /ak.ta/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: actas, actât

### Verb

acta
* third-person singular past historic of acter

## Latin
### Pronunciation

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

### Etymology 1

From the verb agō (“make, do”).

#### Noun

ācta n pl (genitive āctōrum); second declension
* 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

* → Catalan: acta
* → English: act
* → Galician: acta
* → German: Akte
* → Indonesian: akta
* → Malay: akta
* → Norwegian Bokmål: akt
* → Portuguese: ata
* → Spanish: acta

#### 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 Greek ἀκτή (aktḗ).

#### Noun

acta f (genitive actae); 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, 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
### Noun

acta f (plural actas)
* 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)
* collection of documents

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈaɡta/ [ˈaɣ̞.t̪a]
* Audio (Venezuela):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɡta
* Syllabification: ac‧ta

### Noun

acta f (plural actas)
* certificate
* minutes, record
* 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 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10