iaculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• jaculum

Etymology

From iaculus, from iaciō (“I throw”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈi̯a.ku.lum/, [ˈi̯äkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈja.ku.lum/, [ˈjäːkulum]

Noun

iaculum n (genitive iaculī); second declension

1. A dart, a javelin
   • C. Iulii Caesaris commentarii de bello Gallico. Für den Schulgebrauch erklärt von Dr. Albert Doberenz. Sechste Auflage, 1874, p. 157 (lib. V, cap. 43) and p. 160 (lib. V, cap. 45):

     Septimo oppugnationis die maximo coorto vento ferventes fusili ex argilla glandes fundis et fervefacta iacula in casas, quae more Gallico stramentis erant tectae, iacere coeperunt.

     Has ille in iaculo illigatas effert et Gallus inter Gallos sine ulla suspicione versatus ad Caesarem pervenit.

   • 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, 25:18

     Iaculum et gladius et sagittā acūtā homō quī loquitur contrā proximum suum testimōnium falsum

     A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour, is like a dart and a sword and a sharp arrow.

     (trans.: Douay-Rheims Bible)

2. A casting net, the weapon of a retiarius

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iaculum	iacula
Genitive	iaculī	iaculōrum
Dative	iaculō	iaculīs
Accusative	iaculum	iacula
Ablative	iaculō	iaculīs
Vocative	iaculum	iacula

Synonyms

• (dart, missile): missile, tēlum

Derived terms

• iaculor

Related terms

• iaciō
• iaculus

References

• “iaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iaculum 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)
• “iaculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers