ictus

See also: ictūs

English

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

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ictus.

Pronunciation

Noun

ictus m (plural ictusos)

  1. (medicine, music) ictus

Further reading

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

Participle

ictus (feminine icta, neuter ictum); first/second-declension participle

  1. hit, struck, blown
  2. stabbed, stung

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative ictus icta ictum ictī ictae icta
Genitive ictī ictae ictī ictōrum ictārum ictōrum
Dative ictō ictō ictīs
Accusative ictum ictam ictum ictōs ictās icta
Ablative ictō ictā ictō ictīs
Vocative icte icta ictum ictī ictae icta

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.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ictus ictūs
Genitive ictūs ictuum
Dative ictuī ictibus
Accusative ictum ictūs
Ablative ictū ictibus
Vocative ictus ictūs

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, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • struck by lightning: fulmine ictus

Anagrams

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

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