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iactura

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Participle

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iactūra

  1. inflection of iactūrus:
    1. nominative/vocative/ablative feminine singular
    2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Noun

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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

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative iactūra iactūrae
genitive iactūrae iactūrārum
dative iactūrae iactūrīs
accusative iactūram iactūrās
ablative iactūrā iactūrīs
vocative iactūra iactūrae
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References

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  • 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)