iactus
See also: Iactus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Perfect passive participle of iaciō (“throw, hurl; emit”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈi̯ak.tus/, [ˈi̯äkt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈjak.tus/, [ˈjäkt̪us]
Participle edit
iactus (feminine iacta, neuter iactum); first/second-declension participle
- 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.
- 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
- sent forth, having been sent forth, emitted, having been emitted; brought forth, having been brought forth, produced, having been produced
- scattered, having been scattered, sown, having been sown, thrown, having been thrown
- (as a shadow) projected, having been projected
- (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 edit
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 edit
iactus m (genitive iactūs); fourth declension
Declension edit
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 edit
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *iectus
References edit
- “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
- (ambiguous) to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse