iacto

From iaciō (“throw”) +‎ -tō (frequentative suffix). See iactus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯ak.toː/, [ˈi̯äkt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjak.to/, [ˈjäkt̪o]

iactō (present infinitive iactāre, perfect active iactāvī, supine iactātum); first conjugation

1. to throw, cast, hurl

   Synonyms: coniciō, iniciō, adiciō, obiciō, abiciō, permittō, iaciō, trāiciō, iaculor, impingō, ēmittō, mittō, lībrō

2. to scatter, toss
3. (figuratively) to disturb, disquiet, torment, agitate, shock

   Synonyms: cieo, perpello, molior, instigo, instinguo, agito, turbo, ango

   • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.41–42:

     carmina sēcessum scrībentis et ōtia quaerunt;
     mē mare, mē ventī, mē fera iactat hiems

     Verses require of [their] writing [both] solitude and leisure;
     the sea, winds, [and] a savage winter disturb me.
     (The poet, sailing to exile during wintertime, is disturbed both physically and mentally.)

4. to utter, speak, throw out
5. to hurl insults
6. to be officious or active in, give oneself up to, devote oneself to a thing

   Synonyms: versō, exerceō, operor

7. to boast, act conceitedly, be officious, show off, display, parade, throw one’s weight around, make oneself conspicuous, flaunt oneself
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.139–141:

     “Tenet ille immānia saxa,
     vestrās, Eure, domōs; illā sē iactet in aulā
     Aeolus, et clausō ventōrum carcere rēgnet.”

     “He controls those monstrous rocks, [which are] your abode, Eurus; let Aeolus flaunt himself in that palace, and rule in the locked prison of the winds.”
     (Neptune (mythology) dismisses Eurus and the other winds with a derogatory warning for their king, Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)

8. (Medieval Latin) to invest

¹The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.

• Late Latin: iectō (see there for further descendants)
• → Portuguese: jactar
• → Sicilian: jattari
• → Spanish: jactar

iactō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of iactus

• “iacto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• jacto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • tossed hither and thither by the waves: fluctibus iactari
    
  • to have a severe attack of fever: aestu et febri iactari
    
  • to experience the ups and downs of life: multis casibus iactari
    
  • to use threats: minas iacere, iactare
    
  • the bank-rate varies: nummus iactatur (Off. 3. 20. 80)
    
• iacto in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• iacto in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016