“cast” in Latin

jacere - jactare (to cast repeatedly or constantly): mittere (to send from one’s hand): jaculari (to hurl from the hand): conjicere (to hurl, with especial reference to hitting an object; often at the same time with others: also, to throw into a place; as, milites in locum; aliquem in vincula): injicere (to cast into): into anything, alicui rei or in aliquid. To cast anything at anybody, aliquem petere aliqua re (e.g., with an apple, malo). To cast stones, lapides jacere: at anybody, lapides mittere or conjicere in aliquem: lapidibus petere aliquem; lapidibus aliquem prosequi (to persecute him by hurling stones at him): to cast stones at one another, *alter alterum lapidibus petit: to cast anything at anybody’s head, in caput alicujus aliquid jaculari: money into the sea, pecuniam in mare jubere mergi: to cast a cloak about one, pailium circumjicere: to cast a light, lucem mittere (e.g., luna mittit lucem in terram): to cast one’s eyes at anything, oculos conjicere ad or in aliquid: blame on anybody, aliquem reprehendere (de or in aliqua re); aliquem vituperare de aliqua re [Vid. BLAME, v.] . To cast a nativity, animadvertere et notare sidera natalicia; fata per genituras interpretari (after Ammian): any body’s nativity, praedicere et notare vitam alicujus ex natali die (after Cic., De Divin., 2, 42, init.): to cast one’s teeth, dentes cadunt, decidual or excidunt: feathers, *plumas mutare: one’s skin, pellem exuere; vernationem or senectam exuere (of serpents): a stumbling-block in the way, impedimentum alicui afferre, or inferre; obstare alicui; impedire aliquem: dust in anybody’s eyes, alicui fumum facere; glaucomam ob oculos objicere, nebulas cudere (in comedy): in the eyes of one’s hearers, verborum et argutiarum fuliginem ob oculos audientium jacere (Gell.): to cast anything in anybody’s teeth [Vid: CAST AGAINST]: to cast one’s self on the earth, procumbere humi, ad terram projici (both also of falling unintentionally): at anybody’s feet, se ad alicujus pedes projicere or abjicere; or se alicui ad pedes projicere or abjicere (e.g., se Caesari ad pedes projicere): [lots, anchor, an account, etc., Vid: those words].

To cast (i. e., form by pouring fused metal into a mold), fundere: of anything, ex aliqua re: fingere (general term for forming by a plastic method).

CAST ABOUT, jactare (toss hither and thither): dispergere (scatter: per): = consider, Vid:

To be cast, in a lawsuit, causa cadere: to cast, damnare, condemnare (of the judges).

CAST AGAINST, objicere aliquid alicui rei (= reproach with anything): objicere (the proper word): exprobrare: opprobrare: objurgare aliquem de aliqua re: aliquid crimini dare alicui.

CAST AWAY, abjicere, projicere (e.g., arma): one’s shield, scutum e manu emittere: money, pecuniam profundere: one’s self, se abjicere (in a moral sense; not se projicere, which is “to run headlong into danger”): se prmaecipitare, or praecipitare only, or praecipitari in exitium (rush to destruction): to be cast away (= suffer shipwreck), naufragium facere.

Cast back, rejicere.

CAST DOWN: (1) PROPR., affligere terrae or ad terram: sternere, prosternere: one’s eyes, oculos in terram demittere or dejicere; oculos dejicere: terram intueri: before anybody, alicui oculos susmittere: modestly, terram modeste intueri: (2) FIG., dishearten, affligere: any body, aliquem or alicujus animum affligere; alicujus animum frangere or infringere.

CAST FORTH, jacere: cjicere.

CAST IN or INTO, injicere aliquid alicui rei or in aliquid: into prison, in custodiam dare: in vincula conjicere: a sleep, sopire, consopire: alicui somnum afferre, parere, conciliare: in one’s mind, cogitare cum, or in animo, or aliquid, or de aliqua re: considerare in animo cum animo, secum; or only considerare aliquid or de aliqua re: aliquid agitare mente, animo, or in mente or cum animo: perpendere, pensitare aliquid: secum or cum animo reputare aliquid.

Cast OFF, ponere: deponere (lay down. or aside): exuere (put off): abjicere (throw away). To cast off clothes, vestem pone re, deponere, abjicere (which one has thrown off: vestem deponere also of rejecting as worn out): vestem exuere (which one has pulled off): human feeling, omnem humanitatem exuere: a servant, dimittere aliquem: the dogs, canibus vincla demere (Ov.): canes immittere or instigare (in feras).

CAST OUT, abigere (drive off): pellere, depellere: propellere: proturbare (one who is forcing himself in): expellere: extrudere: exturbare (out of a place): exterminare (ex) urbe, de civitate (of driving him out of the limits of a city or state): out of a house, aliquem domo ejicere; aliquem foras extrudere: out of a city, ex urbe ejicere: devils, daemonas adjuratione divini nominis expellere ac fugare (Lactantius).

CAST UP: PROPR., sublime jacere (after Plin., 11, 2, 1, § 4): earth, terram adaggerare: earth about a tree, arborem aggerare: a mound, aggerem jacere, exstruere: a ball, pilam in altum mittere: one’s eyes, oculos tollere: an account, computare aliquid or rationem alicujus rei [Vid: ACCOUNT]. FIG., vomit, evomere, exspuere [Vid: VOMIT]

CAST UPON: PROPR., superinjicere; gravel on the road, glarea superstruere viam. FIG., trust to, fidere or confidere alicui, or alicui rei, or aliqud re: niti aliqua re: one’s hope upon anybody, spem ponere, reponere, constituere in aliquo: blame on anybody, culpam in aliquem conferre, conjicere: from one’s self, culpam in aliquem transferre.

Casting vote, perhaps *sutfragium or punctum decretorium: *vox decretoria.

throw, jactus: missus: jaculatio: conjectio (e.g., telorum) [SYN. in CAST, v.] ictus (a successful cast, a hit). A stone’s cast, lapidis jactus or conjectus (e.g., extra lapidis, teli, etc., jactum or conjectum esse: a cast of dice, jactus or missus talorum or tesserarum. SYN. in DIE, DICE, where the names of the casts will be found).

Risk, venture, alea: to venture anything at a cast, aliquid in aleam dare (PROP. and figuratively): aliquid in discrimen committere, vocare, deferre, or adducere: aliquid discrimini committere: often by agitur aliquid or do aliqua re (any thing is at stake): or by dimicare de aliqua re. My life is ventured upon the cast, de vita dimico: de vita in discrimen vocor: to be brought to the last cast, in ultimum discrimen adduci (to be brought into the greatest danger): ultima audere, experiri; ad extrema or ad ultimum auxilium descendere (to be trying one’s last chance). It is our last chance, ad extrema perventum est; res est ad extremum perducta casum.

Molded figure, signum: imago ficta: simulacrum fictile: figura fictilia (if of clay or plaster): signum aeneum signum ex aere factum or expressum (if of brass).

Form, imago, species, forma. (The words are found in this connection and order), species et forma: infonnatio.

Cast of the eyes, limi or perversi oculi: to have a cast with one’s eye, limis or perversis oculis esse; strabonem esse.

Trick, ars: artificium.

Shade of color: to have a cast of black, nigricare (to be blackish): nigrescere (to become black): of violet, in violam vergere, violam sentire, in violam desinere (Plin.). White with a cast of violet, candidus color violam sentiens (Plin.).

Body of men, etc., corpus. The military or sacerdotal cast, corpus militum or sacerdotum: or only milites, sacerdotes. The spirit of cast, mostly by spiritus, with an adjective describing the cast; e.g., of the patricians, spiritus patricii (Liv.). IMPROPR., genus: farina. He is of our cast, est nostrae farinae (i. e., as bad as we are, Persius): of the same cast, ejusdem generis or farinae.