Ject
/dʒɛkt/noun
A combining form from Latin meaning "to throw" or "to cast," used in many English words.
Did you know?The Latin root *iacere* (“to throw”) gave English a whole family of words, and in many of them the original idea is still visible: to cast out, throw forward, or hurl down.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*yeh₁-
“to throw, cast”
Latin
Latin
iacere
“to throw, hurl”
Latin
Latin
iect-
“thrown; cast”
Old French
Old French
jecter
“to throw, cast out”
Middle English
English
jecten
“to throw out”
Modern English
English
ject
“combining form meaning to throw”