iactus
See also: Iactus
Latin
Alternative forms
- jactus
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of iaciō (“throw, hurl; emit”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi̯ak.tus/, [ˈi̯äkt̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈjak.tus/, [ˈjäkt̪us]
Participle
iactus (feminine iacta, neuter iactum); first/second-declension participle
- thrown, having been thrown, hurled, having been hurled, cast, having been cast, flung, having been flung; thrown away, having been thrown away
- Alea iacta est.
- The die is cast.
- laid, having been laid, set, having been set, established, having been established, built, having been built, founded, having been founded, constructed, having been constructed, erected, having been erected
- sent forth, having been sent forth, emitted, having been emitted; brought forth, having been brought forth, produced, having been produced
- scattered, having been scattered, sown, having been sown, thrown, having been thrown
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.662:
- sēminibus iactīs est ubi fētus ager.
- With the seeds having been sown, it is when the farmland is pregnant.
- sēminibus iactīs est ubi fētus ager.
- (as a shadow) projected, having been projected
- (figuratively) thrown out in speaking, having been thrown out in speaking, let fall, having been let fall, uttered, having been uttered, mentioned, having been mentioned, declared, having been declared
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | iactus | iacta | iactum | iactī | iactae | iacta | |
Genitive | iactī | iactae | iactī | iactōrum | iactārum | iactōrum | |
Dative | iactō | iactō | iactīs | ||||
Accusative | iactum | iactam | iactum | iactōs | iactās | iacta | |
Ablative | iactō | iactā | iactō | iactīs | |||
Vocative | iacte | iacta | iactum | iactī | iactae | iacta |
Noun
iactus m (genitive iactūs); fourth declension
- throwing, hurling, casting
- throw, cast
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | iactus | iactūs |
Genitive | iactūs | iactuum |
Dative | iactuī | iactibus |
Accusative | iactum | iactūs |
Ablative | iactū | iactibus |
Vocative | iactus | iactūs |
Descendants
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *iectus
- Asturian: xeitu
- Catalan: git
- Galician: xeito
- Italian: getto
- Old French: jet
- Anglo-Norman: jet
- French: jet
- → English: jet
- Portuguese: jeito, jato
- Spanish: echo
References
- “iactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iactus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- iactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse
- (ambiguous) to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse