Latin

Alternative forms

• prōjiciō

Verb

prōiciō ‎(present infinitive prōicere, perfect active prōiēcī, supine prōiectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I throw, thrust, drive, fling or hurl forth, down, away or out; discharge, scatter.
2. (by extension) I stretch out, hold out, extend, project.
3. (by extension) I cast out, expel, exile, banish.
4. (in architecture) I let part of a building jut out, cause to project.
5. (figuratively) I throw away, give up, yield, resign, renounce, reject, disdain; neglect, desert, abandon.
6. (figuratively, with se) I rush into something; degrade myself.
7. (figuratively) I put off, defer, delay.

Inflection

Synonyms

• (banish): abdō, ablēgō, dēpellō, eximō, expellō, exterminō, pellō, relēgō, submoveō

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• English: project, projection

References

• proicio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• proicio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “proicio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to throw oneself at some one's feet: ad pedes alicuius se proicere, se abicere, procumbere, se prosternere
    
• proicio in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016