iacio

• jacio

From Proto-Italic *jakjō (“throw (down?)”), from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw, let go”). Compare iaceō.

Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵημι (híēmi, “to send, throw”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈja.ki.oː/
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈja.t͡ʃi.o/, [ˈjaː.t͡ʃi.o]

iaciō (present infinitive iacere, perfect active iēcī, supine iactum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I throw, hurl, cast, fling; throw away

   Alea iacta est. ― The die has been cast.

   Synonyms: iaculor, lībrō, mittō

2. I lay, set, establish, build, found, construct, erect
3. I send forth, emit; bring forth, produce

   Synonyms: ēmittō, mittō

4. I scatter, sow, throw
5. (as a shadow) I project
6. (figuratively) I throw out in speaking, let fall, utter, mention, declare

• iaceō

• iacio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iacio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
    
  • (ambiguous) to let fall an expression: voces iacere (Sall. Iug. 11)
    
  • (ambiguous) to use threats: minas iacere, iactare
    
  • (ambiguous) to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to be out of range: extra teli iactum, coniectum esse
    
  • (ambiguous) to raise a rampart, earthwork: vallum iacere, exstruere, facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to drop anchor: ancoras iacere
    

• jacio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill