iniecto

Forms

iniectō (present infinitive iniectāre, perfect active iniectāvī, supine iniectātum); first conjugation^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin iniciō (“to throw in, lay on”) + -tō, a frequentative like ēiectō.^[2][3][4] Its base is a compound of iaciō (“to throw”).^[5]

Earliest recorded meaning

Its first author is Lucan, who has iniectare manum for laying a hand on a ship.^[3][6]

Semantic evolution

Lewis & Short call it poetic.^[7] Silius Italicus uses dextram iniectare for joining right hands, and Statius and Lucan the phrase with manum, laying hands on something;^[7][4][3] the TLL takes the Statius readings for errors for ēiectāre.^[3]

In Ammianus Marcellinus people throw themselves into boats with it, and in a figurative use Semiramis is said to have done violence to nature, vim iniectāns nātūrae, by castrating boys.^[3][4] Virgilius the grammarian uses it of driving things into the earth.^[3]

Timeline

• 39–65 AD – Lucan: iniectare manum.^[3][6]
• 25–101 AD – Silius Italicus: dextram iniectare.^[7][4][6]
• c. 390 AD – Ammianus Marcellinus uses it of throwing oneself into boats and, figuratively, of doing violence to nature.^[3][4][6]

Meanings

Verb

1. To lay on, apply (the hand): manum iniectāre, to lay hands on.^[2][7][4]
2. To throw in: sē iniectāre, to fling oneself into.^[3][4]
3. (figurative) To inflict: vim iniectāre, to do violence to.^[3][4]

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
4. ^ a b c d e f g h Georges, Karl Ernst (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th ed., ed. Heinrich Georges, Hannover; Leipzig: Hahn
5. ^ Harper, Douglas. Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com
6. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
7. ^ a b c d Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press