iactura

Latin

Participle

iactūra

1. inflection of iactūrus:
   1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Noun

iactūra f (genitive iactūrae); first declension

1. a throwing away
2. throwing overboard, jettison
   • Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, Book V, 9, 3

     Sed medici quoque graviores morbos asperis remediis curant, et gubernator, ubi nafraugium timet, iactura quidquid servari potest redimit.

     Translation by John Carew Rolfe:

     But physicians also cure more desperate maladies by harsh remedies, and a pilot, when he fears shipwreck, rescues by jettison whatever can be saved.

3. (figuratively) sacrifice
4. (figuratively) loss
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico VII.26:

     Non magna iactura suorum

     Without great loss of their [men]

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iactūra	iactūrae
Genitive	iactūrae	iactūrārum
Dative	iactūrae	iactūrīs
Accusative	iactūram	iactūrās
Ablative	iactūrā	iactūrīs
Vocative	iactūra	iactūrae

Related terms

• iaciō

References

• “iactura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iactura 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)