activus

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Etymology

    Category:Latin semantic loans from Ancient Greek#ACTIVUS%7CACTIVUSCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -ivus#ACTIVUSCategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#ACTIVUS%7CACTIVUSCategory:Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵ- (drive)#ACTIVUSCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#ACTIVUS

    From agō (“to act”)Category:Latin links with redundant target parameters#ACTIVUS +‎ -īvusCategory:Latin links with redundant target parameters#ACTIVUSCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -ivus#ACTIVUS. Sense 3 is a semantic loan from Ancient GreekCategory:Latin semantic loans from Ancient Greek#ACTIVUSCategory:Latin terms derived from Ancient Greek#ACTIVUS ἐνεργητικός (energētikós).

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    āctīvus (feminine āctīva, neuter āctīvum, adverb āctīvē)Category:Latin lemmas#ACTIVUSCategory:Latin adjectives#ACTIVUSCategory:Latin first and second declension adjectives#ACTIVUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#ACTIVUSCategory:Pages with entries#ACTIVUSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ACTIVUS; first/second-declension adjective

    1. active
    2. practical
    4. (grammarCategory:la:Grammar#ACTIVUS) active (of a verb)

    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    • “activus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • "activus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • “activus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (ambiguous) to put the finishing touch to a work: extrema manus accēdit operi (active extremam manum imponere operi)
      • (ambiguous) to be some one's favourite: in amore et deliciis esse alicui (active in deliciis habere aliquem)
      Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook
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