Latin

Alternative forms

• cōiciō

Verb

cōniciō ‎(present infinitive cōnicere, perfect active cōniēcī, supine coniectum); third conjugation iō-variant

1. I throw or bring together, unite, connect.
2. I throw, drive, force, hurl something.
3. I dispatch, assign, make go.
4. I urge, press, adduce.
5. I prophesy, foretell, forebode.
6. I conclude, guess.
7. (figuratively) I dispute, contend, discuss.
8. (reflexively) I go, I hurry.

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References

• cōnĭcĭo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• conicio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “conicio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to turn one's gaze on; to regard: oculos conicere in aliquem
    
  • to overwhelm some one with terror: in terrorem conicere aliquem
    
  • to isolate a witness: aliquem a ceteris separare et in arcam conicere ne quis cum eo colloqui possit (Mil. 22. 60)
    
  • to put the blame on another: culpam in aliquem conferre, transferre, conicere
    
  • to put some one in irons, chains: in vincula, in catenas conicere aliquem
    
  • to throw some one into prison: in carcerem conicere aliquem
    
  • to discharge missiles: tela iacere, conicere, mittere
    
  • to discharge showers of missiles: tela ingerere, conicere
    
  • to put the enemy to flight: in fugam dare, conicere hostem
    
  • to take to flight: se conicere, se conferre in fugam
    
• “cōniciō, ~icere, ~iēcī, ~iectum” on page 446/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (2nd ed., 2012)