exitus

See also: Exitus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.

Noun

exitus (countable and uncountable, plural exituses)

1. (medicine) death

   Synonyms: exitus letalis, fatality

   • 1944 November, John G. Sinclair, N. D. Schofield, “Anomalies of the cardio-pulmonary circuit compensated without a ductus arteriosus”, in The Anatomical Record, volume 90, number 3, →DOI, page 209:

     She was brought to the Emergency Room moribund and went on to exitus soon after.

Latin

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From exeō (“go out”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

Noun

exitus m (genitive exitūs); fourth declension

1. a departure, a going out

   Synonyms: exitium, abitus, ēgressiō

   Antonym: adventus

2. an egress, a passage by which one may depart, exit, way out
3. (figuratively) a conclusion, termination
4. (figuratively) death

   Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, perniciēs, somnus, fīnis, sopor

5. (figuratively) result, event, issue

   Synonyms: successus, effectus, frūx, frūctus, ēventus, prōventus

6. revenue, income

   Synonym: mercēs

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exitus	exitūs
genitive	exitūs	exituum
dative	exituī	exitibus
accusative	exitum	exitūs
ablative	exitū	exitibus
vocative	exitus	exitūs

Related terms

• exitiābilis
• exitiālis
• exitiō
• exitiōsē
• exitiōsus
• exitium

Descendants

• Asturian: ésitu
• Catalan: èxit
• Galician: eixido, éxito
• Italian: esito
• Piedmontese: ésit
• Portuguese: êxito
• Spanish: éxito, ejido
• → English: exit
• → German: Exitus

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of exeō.

Participle

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

1. gone, left, having gone out.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	exitus	exita	exitum		exitī	exitae	exita
genitive	exitī	exitae	exitī		exitōrum	exitārum	exitōrum
dative	exitō	exitae	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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 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
    

Romanian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus.

Noun

exitus n (uncountable)

1. death

Declension

Declension of exitus

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	exitus	exitusul
genitive-dative	exitus	exitusului
vocative	exitusule

Spanish

Alternative forms

• éxitus

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus (“departure”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɡsitus/ [ˈeɣ̞.si.t̪us]
• Rhymes: -eɡsitus

Noun

exitus m (plural exitus)

1. (medicine) death

Further reading

• Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “exitus”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]