The corpus record — Latin

jaculus

jaculus · adj

that is thrown

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Where it lives

Psychomachia 2 · 3.33/10k
De Paenitentia 1 · 2.45/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Punica 18 · 2.36/10k
De Bello Africo 3 · 2.31/10k
Aeneid 14 · 2.21/10k
Ars Amatoria 3 · 2.02/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Virginibus Velandis 1 · 1.79/10k
In Rufinum 1 · 1.75/10k
De Bello Hispaniensi 1 · 1.65/10k

Densest 12 of 50 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

jăcŭlus — Lewis & Short

jăcŭlus, a, um, adj.jacio,

I that is thrown (mostly subst.). So, rete jaculum and simply jaculum, a casting-net, fishingnet, Plaut. Truc. 1, 1, 14; id. As. 1, 1, 86; cf.: hi jaculo pisces, illi capiuntur ab hamis, Ov. A. A. 1, 763.—Also of the net of the gladiator retiarius, Isid. Orig. 18, 54.— Hence, subst.: jăcùlus, i, m.

A (Sc. serpens.) A serpent that darts from a tree on its prey: jaculi volucres, Luc. 9, 720; 9, 822; Plin. 8, 23, 35, § 85.—

B Jaculus (sc. funis or laqueus), a sling or noose which is thrown over the horns of oxen, a lasso, Col. 6, 2, 4 (al. laquei).

In the wild

iacula Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni 4.9.3
iaculoque Silius Italicus, Punica 1.394
iacula Tertullian, De Virginibus Velandis 15
iaculo Horace, Carmina 1.8.12
iaculo Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 60.1
iaculo Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.119

6 of 121 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.