Noun: pactum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | pactum |
| Plural | pacta |
Genitive
| Singular | pactī |
| Plural | pactōrum |
Dative
| Singular | pactō |
| Plural | pactīs |
Accusative
| Singular | pactum |
| Plural | pacta |
Ablative
| Singular | pactō |
| Plural | pactīs |
Vocative
| Singular | pactum |
| Plural | pacta |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: foedus
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quō pactō possum vīvere sī..? (how can I live when..?)
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quo pacto ius nostrum adipiscamur (how we may obtain our right) [27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab urbe condita 1.32]
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Servi mehercule mei si me isto pacto metuerent ut te metuunt omnes cives tui, domum meam relinquendam putarem. (If my servants feared me in such a manner as all your countrymen fear you, I should think that I need to leave my house.) [63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.17]
Nouns inflected like pactum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originally from pacīscor (“to arrange by negotiation”), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ḱ- (“to fix; settle”), whence also pāx (“peace”). Not easily distinguishable from Etymology 2 already in Proto-Indo-European, which might reflect an eventual merger of a split outcome of the same root.
Verbs referencing "pactum"
Romanian Nouns
pat, English Nouns
pact, Dutch Nouns
pact, Romanian Nouns
pact, English Nouns
patio, Italian Nouns
patto, Catalan Nouns
pati, German Nouns
Pacht, Catalan Nouns
pacte, French Nouns
pacte, Swedish Nouns
pakt, Finnish Nouns
pakti, Dutch Nouns
pacht, Russian Nouns
пакт, Hungarian Nouns
paktum, German Nouns
Pakt, Portuguese Nouns
pátio, Spanish Nouns
pechada, Spanish Nouns
pechero, Galician Nouns
peiteiro.
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