auctus
Latin
Alternative forms
- avctus, autus, avtus
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯k.tus/, [ˈäu̯kt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈau̯k.tus/, [ˈäu̯kt̪us]
Etymology 1
Perfect passive participle of augeō.
Adjective
auctus (feminine aucta, neuter auctum, comparative auctior); first/second-declension adjective
- enriched
- enlarged
- ample
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | auctus | aucta | auctum | auctī | auctae | aucta | |
| Genitive | auctī | auctae | auctī | auctōrum | auctārum | auctōrum | |
| Dative | auctō | auctō | auctīs | ||||
| Accusative | auctum | auctam | auctum | auctōs | auctās | aucta | |
| Ablative | auctō | auctā | auctō | auctīs | |||
| Vocative | aucte | aucta | auctum | auctī | auctae | aucta | |
Etymology 2
augeō + -tus (forming action nouns)
Noun
auctus m (genitive auctūs); fourth declension
- increase, augmentation, abundance
- Synonyms: incrēmentum, augmentum
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | auctus | auctūs |
| Genitive | auctūs | auctuum |
| Dative | auctuī | auctibus |
| Accusative | auctum | auctūs |
| Ablative | auctū | auctibus |
| Vocative | auctus | auctūs |
References
- “auctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “auctus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- auctus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum
- a river swollen by the rain: flumen imbribus auctum