iactus

See also: Iactus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of iaciō (“throw, hurl; emit”).

Pronunciation

Participle

iactus (feminine iacta, neuter iactum); first/second-declension participle

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. sent forth, having been sent forth, emitted, having been emitted; brought forth, having been brought forth, produced, having been produced
  4. 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.
  5. (as a shadow) projected, having been projected
  6. (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

  1. throwing, hurling, casting
  2. 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

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
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