iaceo

• jaceō

From Proto-Italic *jakēō. By surface analysis, iaciō (“to throw”) +‎ -eō (stative suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈja.ke.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjaː.t͡ʃe.o]

iaceō (present infinitive iacēre, perfect active iacuī, future active participle iacitūrus); second conjugation, no passive, no supine stem except in the future active participle

1. to lie prostrate, lie down; recline

   Synonym: cubō

   • Cur in terra iaces? — “Why are you lying on the ground?”
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 1.218:

     pauper ubīque iacet

     and everywhere the poor man lies prostrated

2. to be sick, lie ill

   Synonyms: aegrōtō, cubō, langueō, languēscō

   Antonym: valeō

3. to linger, stop, tarry, remain
4. to be placed or situated, lie
5. to be low, flat or level
6. to lie still
7. to have fallen, lie dead
8. to lie in ruins
9. to hang down loose
10. (of the face or eyes) to be fixed on the ground or cast down
11. to be indolent, idle or inactive

    Synonyms: langueō, dēsideō, vacō, cessō, resideō, sileō, conquiēscō

12. to be of no avail, lie dormant or abandoned
13. to lodge, dwell, abide

    Synonyms: obsideō, cōnsīdō, possideō, habitō, subsīdō, resideō, incolō, colō, stabulō, vīvō, versō

14. to lie overthrown; to be refuted, fail; to be despised
15. (of speech or language) to be languid, dull or lifeless

• “iaceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “iaceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “iaceo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • scholarship, culture, literature is at a low ebb: litterae iacent, neglectae iacent
    
  • philosophy is neglected, at low ebb: philosophia (neglecta) iacet (vid. sect. VII. 1, note iacēre...)
    
  • to upset the whole system: totam rationem evertere (pass. iacet tota ratio)
    
  • the money is bringing in no interest, lies idle: pecunia iacet otiosa
    
  • the state is secure: res publica stat (opp. iacet)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be broken down by misfortune: in malis iacere
    
  • (ambiguous) to let fall an expression: voces iacere (Sall. Iug. 11)
    
  • (ambiguous) to use threats: minas iacere, iactare
    
  • (ambiguous) to lay the foundations: fundamenta iacere, agere
    
  • (ambiguous) to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere
    
  • (ambiguous) to raise a rampart, earthwork: vallum iacere, exstruere, facere
    
  • (ambiguous) to drop anchor: ancoras iacere
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN