pacta

pacta is a Latin form of pactum, meaning “agreement, pact; way, manner (quo pacto: how)”.

It can also be a form of paciscor, “make a bargain, agree; (pactus) agreed upon; betrothed”. It is the perfect passive participle ablative singular feminine or perfect passive participle nominative plural neuter or perfect passive participle vocative plural neuter or perfect passive participle accusative plural neuter.

Found 81 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Officiis 3.92: … m? Perspictum est iam, et quid mihi videatur, et quae sit inter eos philosophos, quos nominavi, controversia. Pacta et promissa semperne servanda sint, quae nec vi nec dolo malo, ut praetores solent, facta sint. Si quis medic …

Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.9.1: … olonio redierit, ad te est relatura, sic velim putes, nihil hoc posse mihi esse iucundius. si vero quae de me pacta sunt ea non servantur, in caelo sum, ut sciat hic noster Hierosolymarius traductor ad plebem quam bonam meis …

Plautus, Pseudolus 1.2.226: éa pacisci módo scis, sed quod pácta es non scis sólvere,

All forms of pactum (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.