Actual

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Middle English: from Old French actuel ‘active, practical’, from late Latin actualis, from actus (see act).

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From Middle English actual, actuel(“active”), from Anglo-Norman actuel, actual, and its source Late Latin actuālis(“active, practical”), from Latin actus(“act, action, performance”), from agere(“to do; to act”) + -alis(“-al”).

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actual (adj.)

early 14c., "pertaining to acts or an action;" late 14c. in the broader sense of "real, existing" (as opposed to potential, ideal, etc.); from Old French actuel "now existing, up to date" (13c.), from Late Latin actualis "active, pertaining to action," adjectival form of Latin actus "a doing" (from PIE root *ag- "to drive, draw out or forth, move").