ictus

Etymology

From the Latin ictus (“a blow”), from īcio (“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 ictūs)

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.

Anagrams

• cutis, ustic

Noun

ictus m (invariable)

1. (pathology) ictus, stroke

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of īcō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈiːk.tus/, [ˈiːk.tʊs]

Participle

īctus m (feminine īcta, neuter īctum); first/second declension

1. hit, struck
2. stabbed, stung

Noun

īctus m (genitive īctūs); fourth declension

1. a blow, stroke, stab, thrust, bite, sting
   1. a striking, playing on the lyre
   2. the stroke of a wing
   3. a stroke of lightning, lightning
2. (prosody, music) a beating time, a beat
3. a beat of the pulse
4. an attack, shot

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, 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
    

Noun

ictus m (plural ictus)

1. (medicine) stroke, ictus