Dictionaries › Latin

ictus

Pronunciation: [ˈɪk.tʊs]

“ictus” is a Latin word. Its 7 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a blow, stroke, stab, thrust; bite, sting
  2. a striking, playing on the lyre
  3. the stroke of a wing
  4. a stroke of lightning, lightning
  5. a beating time, a beat
  6. a beat of the pulse
  7. an attack, shot

Etymology

From ī̆cō (“to strike”) + -tus (suffix forming action nouns from verbs).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “ictus” there

More Latin words

About this dictionary

The Latin dictionary on Glottosphere has 42,428 entries with a page. Browse the Latin dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.