exigo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Latin exigō

From ex- + agō (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.sɪ.ɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.si.ɡo]

Verb

exigō (present infinitive exigere, perfect active exēgī, supine exāctum); third conjugation

1. to drive out; expel

   Synonyms: ablēgō, exsulō, pellō, ēiciō, ēmittō, fugō

2. to demand, require; enforce, exact (pay)

   Synonyms: requīrō, flagito, rogo, efflagito, exposco, exoro, precor, peto, expeto, quaesō, rogitō, repeto, prehenso

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.593–594:

     ‘et caput et rēgnum faciō dōtāle parentis:
     sī vir es, ī, dictās exige dōtis opēs.’

     “The head and the kingdom of my parent I make [my] dowry: If you are a man, go, exact the wealth of the dowry having been declared.”
     (Tullia Minor goads her husband, Lucius Tarquinius, to murder her father, King Servius Tullius.)

3. to execute, complete a task
4. to measure against a standard; weigh [with ad and accusative]
5. to determine, find out, ascertain
6. to examine, consider, test
7. to endure, undergo
8. (of time) to spend, pass
9. to bring to an end, conclude, finish, complete

Conjugation

   Conjugation of exigō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	exigō		exigis		exigit		exigimus		exigitis		exigunt
	imperfect	exigēbam		exigēbās		exigēbat		exigēbāmus		exigēbātis		exigēbant
	future	exigam		exigēs		exiget		exigēmus		exigētis		exigent
	perfect	exēgī		exēgistī		exēgit		exēgimus		exēgistis		exēgērunt, exēgēre
	pluperfect	exēgeram		exēgerās		exēgerat		exēgerāmus		exēgerātis		exēgerant
	future perfect	exēgerō		exēgeris		exēgerit		exēgerimus		exēgeritis		exēgerint
passive	present	exigor		exigeris, exigere		exigitur		exigimur		exigiminī		exiguntur
	imperfect	exigēbar		exigēbāris, exigēbāre		exigēbātur		exigēbāmur		exigēbāminī		exigēbantur
	future	exigar		exigēris, exigēre		exigētur		exigēmur		exigēminī		exigentur
	perfect	exāctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	exāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	exāctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	exigam		exigās		exigat		exigāmus		exigātis		exigant
	imperfect	exigerem		exigerēs		exigeret		exigerēmus		exigerētis		exigerent
	perfect	exēgerim		exēgerīs		exēgerit		exēgerīmus		exēgerītis		exēgerint
	pluperfect	exēgissem		exēgissēs		exēgisset		exēgissēmus		exēgissētis		exēgissent
passive	present	exigar		exigāris, exigāre		exigātur		exigāmur		exigāminī		exigantur
	imperfect	exigerer		exigerēris, exigerēre		exigerētur		exigerēmur		exigerēminī		exigerentur
	perfect	exāctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	exāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular						plural
		first		second		third		first		second		third
active	present	—		exige		—		—		exigite		—
	future	—		exigitō		exigitō		—		exigitōte		exiguntō
passive	present	—		exigere		—		—		exigiminī		—
	future	—		exigitor		exigitor		—		—		exiguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive						participle
		active			passive			active			passive
present		exigere			exigī			exigēns			—
future		exāctūrum esse			exāctum īrī			exāctūrus			exigendus, exigundus
perfect		exēgisse			exāctum esse			—			exāctus
future perfect		—			exāctum fore			—			—
perfect potential		exāctūrum fuisse			—			—			—
verbal nouns		gerund								supine
		genitive		dative		accusative		ablative		accusative		ablative
		exigendī		exigendō		exigendum		exigendō		exāctum		exāctū

Derived terms

• exāctor
• exāctus
• exagium
• exāmen
• exiguus

Descendants

• → Asturian: esixir
• → Catalan: exigir
• → English: exact
• → French: exiger
• → Galician: esixir
• → Italian: esigere
• → Occitan: exigir
• → Piedmontese: esige
• → Portuguese: exigir
• → Romanian: exige
• → Spanish: exigir

References

• “exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “exigo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
    
  • to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere
    
  • to demand payment: pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
    
  • to demand payment of, recover debts: nomina exigere (Verr. 3. 10. 28)
    
  • to exact the taxes (with severity): vectigalia exigere (acerbe)