enact
English
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to make (a bill) into law
- (transitive) to act the part of; to play
- (transitive) to do; to effect
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English enacten derived from Old French en- (cause to be) derived from Latin in- (not, in, on, un-, at, into, onto, inside, without, upon, within) derived from Old French acte (do, perform) derived from Latin actum.
Origin
Latin
actum
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- act English
- acting English
- coenact English
- enactable English
- enacter English
- enactest English
- enacteth English
- enactive English
- enactively English
- enactment English
- enacture English
- inconcoct English
- incorrigible English
- incremable English
- preenact English
- preenactment English
- reenact English
- reenactable English
- reenactor English
- unenactable English
- *imprendō Latin
- *impēiōrāre Latin
- *inclāvāre Latin
- actum Latin
- boscus Latin
- dōtāre Latin
- ferō Latin
- in Latin
- in- Latin
- incatenatio Latin
- inferō Latin
- innocens Latin
- inquaerere, inquiro Latin
- installāre Latin
- installō Latin
- intaminare Latin
- nocens Latin
- ācta Latin
- in- German
- in- Italian
- en- French
- in- French
- in- Spanish, Castilian
- intransigente Spanish, Castilian
- inusitado Spanish, Castilian
- *h₁én Proto-Indo-European
- in- Portuguese
- inusitado Portuguese
- en- Middle English
- enacten Middle English
- encrochen Middle English
- in- Middle English
- acte Old French
- en- Old French
- enbuscier Old French
- in- Catalan, Valencian
- în- Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- încotro Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- îndărăt Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- acte Middle Dutch
- en- Norman
- en- Old Portuguese
- ãn- Aromanian
- *en- Proto-Italic
- *stall Frankish
- en- Old Occitan
- en- Old Spanish
- endouer xno
- ntufà Neapolitan
- entamenar prv