exitus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.si.tus/, [ˈɛk.sɪ.tʊs]

Etymology 1

From exeō (“go out”) +‎ -tus (forming nouns of action).

Noun

exitus m (genitive exitūs); fourth declension

1. a departure, a going out
2. an egress, a passage by which one may depart
3. (figuratively) a conclusion, termination
4. (figuratively) death
5. (figuratively) result, event, issue
6. revenue, income

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	exitus	exitūs
genitive	exitūs	exituum
dative	exituī	exitibus
accusative	exitum	exitūs
ablative	exitū	exitibus
vocative	exitus	exitūs

Synonyms

• (departure): exitium

Descendants

• Catalan: èxit
• English: exit
• Galician: eixido, éxito

• Italian: esito
• Portuguese: êxito
• Spanish: éxito, ejido

Related terms

Terms related to exitus

• exitiābilis
• exitiālis

• exitiō
• exitiōsē

• exitiōsus
• exitium

Etymology 2

Participle

exitus m (feminine exita, neuter exitum); first/second declension

1. gone, left, having gone out.

Inflection

First/second declension.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
nominative	exitus	exita	exitum		exitī	exitae	exita
genitive	exitī	exitae	exitī		exitōrum	exitārum	exitōrum
dative	exitō		exitō		exitīs
accusative	exitum	exitam	exitum		exitōs	exitās	exita
ablative	exitō	exitā	exitō		exitīs
vocative	exite	exita	exitum		exitī	exitae	exita

References

• exitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• exitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) such was the end of... (used of a violent death): talem vitae exitum (not finem) habuit (Nep. Eum. 13)
    
  • (ambiguous) to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: ad exitum aliquid perducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to turn out (well); to result (satisfactorily): eventum, exitum (felicem) habere
    
  • (ambiguous) the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit