Where does “actual” come from?
actual (Middle English) comes from Anglo-Norman actuel, from Old French actual, from Latin actuālis, from Latin āctus, from Latin agō, from Proto-Italic agō, from Proto-Indo-European h₂éǵeti, from Proto-Indo-European h₂eǵ- — to drive.
Ancestry of “actual”, step by step
Words derived from “actual”