The corpus record — Latin

jactus2

Part., from jacio

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
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Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
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Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Epigrammata 1 · 0.18/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

1. jactus — Lewis & Short

jactus, a, um,

Part., from jacio.

2. jactus — Lewis & Short

jactus, ūs, m.jacio,

I a throwing, casting, hurling; a throw, cast.

I Lit.

A In gen.: jactus fulminum, Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 18; Plin. 2, 38, 38, § 104: haec certamina tanta Pulveris exigui jactu compressa quiescunt, Verg. G. 4, 87: glebarum et testarum, Quint. 8, 2, 5: intra jactum teli progressus, Verg. A. 11, 608: teli jactu abesse, to be a spear's-throw distant, Liv. 8, 7 init.: usque ad jactum tali, Tac. A. 13, 40; Curt. 3, 11, 1: truces in sublime jactus (of the bull), Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 4.—

B In partic., a throw or cast of dice: quid est tam incertum quam talorum jactus, Cic. Div. 2, 59, 121: in prospero tesserarum jactu, Liv. 4, 17: talorum ducere jactus, Ov. A. A. 3, 353: ita vita'st hominum quasi si ludas tesseris: si illud, quod maxime opus't jactu non cadit, etc., Ter. Ad. 4, 7, 22.—

C Transf.

1 A throwing out, spreading: jactus radiorum, Plin. 2, 45, 45, § 116.—

2 A throwing down or out, throwing overboard: jactum mercium facere levandae navis causā, a jettison, Dig. 14, 2, 1 sq.: facere jactum medio in ponto, Sen. Troad. 1037: horribilis de saxo jactu' deorsum, Lucr. 3, 1016; Verg. G. 4, 528.—Absol.: decidere jactu cum ventis, Juv. 12, 33; Paul. Sent. 2, 7.—

3 A cast (of the net), a haul, draught: jactum retis emere, Dig. 19, 1, 11, § 18; Val. Max. 4, 1, 7 ext.—*

II Trop., a throwing out, uttering: fortuitus jactus vocis, an assertion casually thrown out, Val. Max. 1, 5, 9.

3. Jactus — Lewis & Short

Jactus, i, m.,

I a river flowing into the Po, Plin. 3, 16, 20, § 118.

In the wild

iactibus Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.37
iactibus Horace, Carmina 1.25
iactibus Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.369
iactibus Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.8.p1
iactibus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.6.5
Iactum Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 3.16

6 of 14 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. iactus (scan p. 327; entry #5162).

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