“throw” in Latin

jacere: jactare (to do it repeatedly or constantly): mittere (to send it forth to a person or persons; e.g., tela tormentis missa): conjicere (PROP., to throw together; either of many doing it at once, or of bringing many things or persons together; e.g., to throw their knapsacks in a heap, conjicere sarcinas in acervum, Liv.; soldiers into a town, milites in locum; also, pila in hostes; maledicta in aliquem; anybody into prison, aliquem in vincula): injicere (to throw into, and also upon or over; e.g., pallium alicui, Cic.) alicui rei or in aliquid: petere aliquem aliqua re (throw anything at anybody): jaculari (to hurl, by swinging the hand round). To throw stones, lapides jacere; at anybody, lapides mittere or conjicere in aliquem; lapidibus petere aliquem: to throw anything at anybody’s head, in caput alicujus aliquid jaculari: to throw money among the people, nummos spargere populo, in plebem: to throw money into the sea, pecuniam in mare jubere mergi: to throw one’s self at anybody’s feet, se ad alicujus pedes, or alicui ad pedes projicere or abjicere (alicujus or alicui equally right; Krebs was too hasty in condemning alicui, which he allows in his second edition): to throw a cloak around or about one, pallium circumjicere or pallium injicere alicui (Cic., N.D., 3, 34, 83): to throw one’s self into anything, injicere se in aliquid (e.g., in medios ignes, Cic.); irruere in aliquid (e.g., in mediam aciem): to throw light on anything, lumen or multum luminis alicui rei afferre; anybody overboard, aliquem in alto ejicere e navi (Cic.); merchandise overboard, jacturam facere (of a voluntary loss).

Throw away, abjicere: projicere (both also figuratively); one’s arms, arma abjicere or projicere: one’s shield, scutum manu emittere. Figuratively. To throw away money, pecuniam profundere: to throw one’s self away (i. e., by misconduct, etc.), se abjicere (not se projicere, which, Cic., Att., 9, 6, 6 = “to expose one’s self rashly to a danger,” “to throwone’s life away”).

Throw down, sternere: prosternere (stretch on the ground): affligere (dash down): dejicere: deturbare (cast down): evertere: subvertere (overthrow). To throw a man down, aliquem ad terram dare: aliquem terrae or ad terram affligere; aliquem ad terram arietare (Curt., 9, 7, 22; to dash him down violently): to throw one’s self down, se abjicere; corpus sternere or prosternere; on the grass, se abjicere in herba (not in herbam; Vid: Cic., De Orat., 1, 7, extr.); at anybody’s feet; Vid: above, “throw at anybody’s feet”: to throw one’s self down from a wall, dejicere se de muro (Caes.); praecipitare se ex muro (Cic., Fragm.): to throw down a statue, statuam evertere (Cic.); a citadel, arcem evertere (Cic.); a house, domum evertere (Cic.), subvertere, proruere (Tac.); a horse, equum evertere (PROP.).

Throw off, ponere: deponere (lay aside): exuere (put off): abjicere (fling away). To throw off a yoke, jugum excutere; jugo se exuere; jugum exuere (slip it off); the dogs, canibus vincla demere (Ov.); canes immittere or instigare (in feras).

Throw on [Vid: THROW UPON].

Throw out, jacere: ejicere. To throw out many very intelligible hints, multas nec dubias significationes jacere (Suet.).

Throw up, sublime jacere (after Plin., 11, 2, 1, § 4); earth, terram adaggerare; about a tree, arborem aggerare; a mound, aggerem jacere, exstruere (figuratively): if vomit, etc., rejicere ore, and simply rejicere, per os reddere (e.g., sanguinem): exscreare (to spit out; e.g., sanguinem, pituitam): exscreare per tussim, extussire (to cough up blood, phlegm, etc.): exspuere (to spit out; e.g., blood, etc.): evomere: eructare (to vomit firth; hence of volcanoes, ignes evomere, Silius, Ital., 17, 598; flammas eructare, Justinus, 4, 1, 4).

Throw upon, superinjicere. To throw one’s self upon a bed, decumbere in lecto; one’s self down upon anything, se abjicere in aliqua re (not in aliquid); gravel upon a road, glarea superstruere viam; one’s self upon (a body of troops, etc), conjicere se in aliquem or aliquid; impressionem facere (e.g., on the left wing, in sinistrum cornu); invadere aliquem; the blame upon anybody, culpam in aliquem conferre (iffrom one’s self); culpam or causam in aliquem transferre, vertere: to throw cold water upon anything, spem alicujus incidere or infringere; consilium alicujus improbare, etc. (according to the meaning): to throw myself upon a person, spem reponere, constituere in aliquo [Vid: CAST]; upon anybody’s compassion, ad misericordiam alicujus confugere.

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

Risk, venture, alea. To venture anything at a throw, aliquid in aleam dare (PROP. and figuratively); aliquid in discrimen committere, vocare, deferre, or adducere; aliquid discrimini committere: often by agitur aliquid or de aliqua re (anything is at stake); or by dimicare de aliqua re. My life is ventured upon the throw, de vita dimico; de vita in discrimen vocor: to be brought to the last throw, 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 throw, ad extrema perventum est; res est ad extremum perducta casum.