The story
- Latin · borrowed fromexactus
- English todayexacta
Unadapted borrowing from Latin exactus (literally “precise, acccurate”).
Words from the same roots
Latinexactus all →
exactexactitude
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
exacta
Today it means: A bet in which the bettor must correctly pick the two runners who finish first and second, in the correct order. Full definition →
Latin exactus