The corpus record — Latin

jactantia

jactantia · f

a boasting, bragging; display, ostentation

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Where it lives

Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 2 · 1.58/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Institutio Oratoria 5 · 0.29/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

jactantĭa — Lewis & Short

jactantĭa, ae, f.jacto,

I a boasting, bragging; display, ostentation (post-Aug.): sui, Tac. A. 2, 46: militaris, id. Agr. 25: frivola in parvis, Quint. 1, 6, 20; 9, 2, 74: partim jactantia ingenii, ut res cito accepisse videantur, id. 12, 8, 3: privatae studere, Plin. Ep. 1, 8, 13; id. Pan. 38, 4.

In the wild

iactantiae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.40
iactantiae Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 15.2
iactantiam Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.27
iactantiae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.6.20
iactantiae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 1.8.18
iactantiae Ausonius, Epistularum 1.p3

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.