Home › Words › A › actusactus/ˈæktəs/actus means A former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m).actus is pronounced /ˈæktəs/.EtymologyFrom Latin āctus (“a cattle drive; a cattle path; units of length and area”). Doublet of act.nounA former Roman unit of length, equal to 120 Roman feet (about 35.5 m)A former Roman unit of area, equivalent to a square with sides of 1 actus (about 0.125 ha)Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.acre 59% match — An English unit of land area (symbol: a. or ac.) originally denoting a day's ploughing for a yoke of oxen, now standardized as 4,840 square yards or 4,046.86 square metres. vs actus →estado 57% match — A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 1.67 m. vs actus →acetable 55% match — An ancient Roman measure, equivalent to about one eighth of a pint. vs actus →stadion 55% match — A Greek unit of distance based on standardized footraces, equivalent to about 185.4 metres. vs actus →sesma 54% match — A traditional Spanish unit of length, equivalent to about 13.9 cm. vs actus →are 54% match — An accepted (but deprecated and rarely used) metric unit of area equal to 100 square metres, or a former unit of approximately the same extent. Symbol: a. vs actus →digitus 53% match — An Ancient Roman unit of length, approximately 0.73 inches. vs actus →juger 53% match — A Roman unit of area, equivalent to rectangle with sides of 240×120 Roman feet (2 acti or about ¼ ha). vs actus →