exitium

Latin

Etymology

From the exit- stem of exeō (“I go out”) +‎ -ium (nominalizing suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈsi.ti.um/, [ɛkˈs̠ɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsit.t͡si.um/, [eɡˈzit̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

exitium n (genitive exitiī or exitī); second declension

1. a going out, egress

   Synonyms: exitus, abitus, ēgressiō

   Antonym: adventus

2. destruction, ruin

   Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, excidium, lētum, ruīna, excidiō, pestis, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, interitus, perditiō, clādēs

3. the cause of destruction or ruin

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	exitium	exitia
Genitive	exitiī exitī1	exitiōrum
Dative	exitiō	exitiīs
Accusative	exitium	exitia
Ablative	exitiō	exitiīs
Vocative	exitium	exitia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Italian: esizio
• Portuguese: exício

References

• “exitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exitium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• exitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be ruined, undone: ad exitium vocari
    
  • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
    
  • to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare