ictus

Etymology

From Latin ictus (“a blow”), from īco (“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 ictusses)

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

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ictus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈik.tus]

Noun

ictus m (plural ictusos)

1. (medicine, music) ictus

Further reading

• “ictus” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/
• Rhymes: -iktus
• Hyphenation: ìc‧tus

Noun

ictus m (invariable)

1. (pathology) ictus, stroke

   Synonyms: infarto cerebrale, (familiar) colpo

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈɪkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈik.tus/, [ˈikt̪us]

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of ī̆cō.

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
    

Anagrams

• cutis

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ictus or French ictus.

Noun

ictus n (plural ictusuri)

1. (medicine) ictus
2. (prosody) ictus
3. (music) ictus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiɡtus/ [ˈiɣ̞.t̪us]
• Rhymes: -iɡtus
• Syllabification: ic‧tus

Noun

ictus m (plural ictus)

1. (medicine) stroke, ictus

   Synonym: derrame

Further reading

• “ictus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10