iactus

See also: Iactus

Latin

Alternative forms

• jactus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯ak.tus/, [ˈi̯äkt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈjak.tus/, [ˈjäkt̪us]

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
  • 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^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse