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"Actor" in Latin is "actor" (masculine) or "actrix" (feminine). However, these may refer to a range of performers, including drivers, business agents and lawyers, as well as theatrical actors.

Words meaning specifically "theatrical actor" would be "histrio", "comoedus" (in comedy) or "tragoedus" (in tragedy).

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The usual word in Latin for a player in a drama is histrio.

The word actor also exists in Latin. It comes from the verb agere, which has the basic meaning "to set in motion". Agere has a number of translations in English, including "drive" (e.g. cattle), "stir up," "conduct" (e.g. business), or simply "do." An actor is someone who does one of these things; it is used in Latin for a doer in general, or a driver of cattle, or the plaintiff in a lawsuit, or even an actor in the English sense.

Actor is also the name of one of the companions of Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.

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