Etymograph

English

dejectory

Dejectory comes from Latin deiector ‘a dejecter’, from dēiciō ‘to cast down’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- ‘to throw’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-1‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciō1‘throw, hurl’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēiciō2‘to cast down’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdeiector3as dejector‘a dejecter’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1994dejectory3

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Latin deicio
  2. 2 Wiktionary, Latin deiector
  3. 3 Wiktionary, English dejectory
  4. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1994, Donald Beecher: “The physician should devote himself to this during several…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-Wiktionary, Latin deicio‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntWiktionary, Latin deicioreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciōWiktionary, Latin deicio‘throw, hurl’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdēiciōWiktionary, Latin deiector‘to cast down’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEdeiectorWiktionary, English dejectoryas dejector‘a dejecter’
  6. Englishearliest quotation 1994dejectoryWiktionary, English dejectory. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1994, Donald Beecher: “The physician should devote himself to this during several…”

Linked words

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

year, hour, catheter, enema, trajectory, jut, abject, iambic, jetsam, 36 more

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

objective, projection, objection, projectile, objector, 22 more

through Latin iaciō ‘throw, hurl’

disease, project, ease, adjacent, jet, object, injection, jess, gist, conjecture, adjective, inject, jetty, ejaculation, ejection, ejaculate, jettison, joist, eject, subjection, interject, 29 more

Today it means

adj Having power, or tending, to cast down.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “dejectory”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entries for Latin deicio, Latin deiector. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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

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