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jactitation
Jan. 13th, 2010 07:31 amjactitation - n., (Law) a false boast or claim that causes injury to another; (also spelled jactation) extreme restlessness or tossing in bed, esp. as a result of disease.
Adding to the orthological confusion, jactation can also mean bragging, especially by talking about yourself in superlatives, but not as legal jargon -- and while it comes from the same root, it arrived by a different route. Jactitation arrived in English around 1630 from Medieval Latin jactitātiōn, tossing, from the past participle of jactitāre, which is the frequentive of jactāre, to throw about, which is itself a frequentive of jacere, to throw. Jactation, natch, comes from the past participle of the first frequentive, which had the boasting sense in Latin. Oh, and it's jak-ti-TAY-shun.
---L.
Adding to the orthological confusion, jactation can also mean bragging, especially by talking about yourself in superlatives, but not as legal jargon -- and while it comes from the same root, it arrived by a different route. Jactitation arrived in English around 1630 from Medieval Latin jactitātiōn, tossing, from the past participle of jactitāre, which is the frequentive of jactāre, to throw about, which is itself a frequentive of jacere, to throw. Jactation, natch, comes from the past participle of the first frequentive, which had the boasting sense in Latin. Oh, and it's jak-ti-TAY-shun.
---L.
