Etymology

ejaculate

eja·cu·late
E1J8A1C3U1L1A1T1E1

Today it means: To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly. Full definition →

Latin ēiaculātus ← Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként ← Proto-Italic *eks
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  3. Proto-Italic*eks
  4. Latinex
  5. Latinē-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yeh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁ként
  8. Latiniaciō
  9. Latiniaculus
  10. Latiniaculum
  11. Latiniaculor
  12. Latinēiaculor
  13. Latinēiaculātus
  14. English todayejaculate

Borrowed from Latin ēiaculātus, perfect active participle of ēiaculor (“to hurl, shoot out”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from ē (“out”) + iaculor (“throw, dart”), from iaculum (“a missile, a dart”), from iaciō (“to throw, to hurl”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.