iactura

Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) iactūra

1. nominative feminine singular of iactūrus
2. nominative neuter plural of iactūrus
3. accusative neuter plural of iactūrus
4. vocative feminine singular of iactūrus
5. vocative neuter plural of iactūrus

Participle

(deprecated template usage) iactūrā

1. ablative feminine singular of iactūrus

Noun

iactūra f (genitive iactūrae); first declension

1. a throwing away
2. throwing overboard, jettison
   • Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, Book V, 9, 3

     Sed medici quoque graviores morbos asperis remediis curant, et gubernator, ubi nafraugium timet, iactura quidquid servari potest redimit.

     Translation by John Carew Rolfe:

     But physicians also cure more desperate maladies by harsh remedies, and a pilot, when he fears shipwreck, rescues by jettison whatever can be saved.

3. (figuratively) sacrifice
4. (figuratively) loss

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	iactūra	iactūrae
Genitive	iactūrae	iactūrārum
Dative	iactūrae	iactūrīs
Accusative	iactūram	iactūrās
Ablative	iactūrā	iactūrīs
Vocative	iactūra	iactūrae

Related terms

• iaciō

References

• “iactura”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• iactura 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)