iactus

• jactus

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

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

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

iactus m (genitive iactūs); fourth declension

1. throwing, hurling, casting
2. throw, cast

• ⇒ 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

• “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