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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of iactō (“throw, cast”).
Participle
iactātus (feminine iactāta, neuter iactātum); first/second-declension participle
- (having been) thrown, (having been) cast, (having been) hurled
- (having been) scattered, (having been) tossed, (having been) tossed about
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.3:
- multum ille et terrīs iactātus et altō
- He having been tossed about much both on land and on sea
(Virgil recounts the travails of Aeneas.)
- (figuratively) (having been) disturbed, (having been) disquieted
- (having been) uttered, (having been) spoken, (having been) thrown out
- (having been) insulted
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
References
- “iactatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iactatus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)