iaculus

• jaculus

From iaciō (“to throw, hurl, cast, fling”) + -ulus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈja.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjaː.ku.lus]

iaculus (feminine iacula, neuter iaculum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (chiefly substantively) that is thrown

   rēte iaculum ― casting net, fishnet

First/second-declension adjective.

iaculus m (genitive iaculī); second declension

1. synonym of iaculum (“cast net; net of the gladiator retiarius”)
2. a serpent that darts from a tree onto its prey
3. (dubious) lasso; sling or noose thrown over the horns of oxen
   • L. Iunii Moderati Columellae de re rustica libri (lib. 6, cap. 2, sect. 4); in: Scriptores rei rusticae veteres latini Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius[.] Quibus nunc accedit Vegetius de mulo-medicina et Gargilii Martialis fragmentum cum editionibus prope omnibus et MSS. pluribus collati[.] Adiectae notae virorum clariss. integrae tum editae tum ineditae et lexicon rei rusticae curante Io. Matthia Gesnero [Nom. Io. Matthias Gesnerus], 1735, p. 572:

     Sed iaculi, quibus capulantur, [...]

     Note: In some other editions this is: "Sed laquei, quibus capulantur [...]".

Second-declension noun.

• “jăcŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “jaculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 866.
• iaculus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, columns 10-11