Latin

Alternative forms

• jactus

Participle

iactus m ‎(feminine iacta, neuter iactum); first/second declension

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
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

Inflection

First/second declension.

Noun

iactus m ‎(genitive iactūs); fourth declension

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

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Descendants

• Asturian: xeitu
• Catalan: git
• Galician: xeito
• Italian: getto
• Portuguese: jeito
• Spanish: echo

References

• 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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “iactus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse