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iniecto

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Pronunciation

  • Classical: [ɪnˈjɛk.toː][1]
  • Ecclesiastical: [inˈjɛk.to][1]

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