actuarius
Latin
Etymology
From āctus, āctūs (“action, deed”) + -ārius.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aːk.tuˈaː.ri.us/, [äːkt̪uˈäːriʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ak.tuˈa.ri.us/, [äkt̪uˈäːrius]
Adjective
āctuārius (feminine āctuāria, neuter āctuārium); first/second-declension adjective
- swift, agile, nimble
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | āctuārius | āctuāria | āctuārium | āctuāriī | āctuāriae | āctuāria | |
| Genitive | āctuāriī | āctuāriae | āctuāriī | āctuāriōrum | āctuāriārum | āctuāriōrum | |
| Dative | āctuāriō | āctuāriō | āctuāriīs | ||||
| Accusative | āctuārium | āctuāriam | āctuārium | āctuāriōs | āctuāriās | āctuāria | |
| Ablative | āctuāriō | āctuāriā | āctuāriō | āctuāriīs | |||
| Vocative | āctuārie | āctuāria | āctuārium | āctuāriī | āctuāriae | āctuāria | |
Derived terms
- āctuāriola
Noun
āctuārius m (genitive āctuāriī or āctuārī); second declension
- scribe, amanuensis, shorthand writer, record-keeper, bookkeeper, administrator
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | āctuārius | āctuāriī |
| Genitive | āctuāriī āctuārī1 | āctuāriōrum |
| Dative | āctuāriō | āctuāriīs |
| Accusative | āctuārium | āctuāriōs |
| Ablative | āctuāriō | āctuāriīs |
| Vocative | āctuārie | āctuāriī |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
- → English: actuary
- → French: actuaire
- → Italian: attuario
- → Portuguese: atuário
- → Romanian: actuar
- → Spanish: actuario
References
- “actuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “actuarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- actuarius 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)
- actuarius in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) a cutter: navis actuaria
- (ambiguous) a cutter: navis actuaria
- “actuarius”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray