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)yeh₁-1‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként1reconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciō1‘to throw, hurl, cast, fling’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculus1‘that is thrown’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculum1‘a dart, a javelin’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculor1‘to throw or hurl’
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculor1‘to hurl, shoot out’
  8. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculātus1‘hurling, shooting out, having hurled out, shooted out’perfect active participle of ēiaculor
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1712ejaculate1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English ejaculate
  2. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1712, Richard Blackmore, London: Printed for S. Buckley: “The mighty Magnet from the Center darts / This…”.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yeh₁-Wiktionary, English ejaculate‘to throw’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntWiktionary, English ejaculatereconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaciōWiktionary, English ejaculate‘to throw, hurl, cast, fling’
  4. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculusWiktionary, English ejaculate‘that is thrown’
  5. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculumWiktionary, English ejaculate‘a dart, a javelin’
  6. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEiaculorWiktionary, English ejaculate‘to throw or hurl’
  7. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculorWiktionary, English ejaculate‘to hurl, shoot out’
  8. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEēiaculātusWiktionary, English ejaculate‘hurling, shooting out, having hurled out, shooted out’perfect active participle of ēiaculor
  9. Englishearliest quotation 1712ejaculateWiktionary, English ejaculate. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 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, 37 more

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

objective, projection, objection, projectile, objector, dejection, 23 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, 31 more

Today it means

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

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “ejaculate”. 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- / ejaculate

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