Etymograph

English

ejaculate

Ejaculate comes from Latin ēiaculātus ‘hurling, shooting out, having hurled out,…’, from iaculor ‘to throw or hurl’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁-.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciō‘to throw, hurl, cast, fling’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculus‘that is thrown’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculum‘a dart, a javelin’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculor‘to throw or hurl’
  7. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculor‘to hurl, shoot out’
  8. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculātus‘hurling, shooting out, having hurled out, shooted out’perfect active participle of ēiaculor
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1712ejaculate

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciō‘to throw, hurl, cast, fling’
  4. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculus‘that is thrown’
  5. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculum‘a dart, a javelin’
  6. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculor‘to throw or hurl’
  7. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculor‘to hurl, shoot out’
  8. Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculātus‘hurling, shooting out, having hurled out, shooted out’perfect active participle of ēiaculor
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1712ejaculate

Earliest quotation: 1712, Richard Blackmore, London: Printed for S. Buckley: “The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’

year, hour, trajectory, abject, catheter, enema, jut, iambic, jetsam, 38 more

through Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként

objective, projection, objection, projectile, objector, dejection, 24 more

through Latin iaciō ‘to throw, hurl, cast, fling’

project, disease, object, ease, jet, injection, adjacent, jess, inject, conjecture, adjective, gist, jetty, ejection, eject, jettison, subjection, joist, interject, 32 more

Today it means

verb To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- / ejaculate

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