exitus

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈek.si.tus/, [ˈɛks̠ɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.si.tus/, [ˈɛksit̪us]

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, exit, way out
3. (figuratively) a conclusion, termination
4. (figuratively) death
5. (figuratively) result, event, issue
6. revenue, income

Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	exitus	exitūs
Genitive	exitūs	exituum
Dative	exituī	exitibus
Accusative	exitum	exitūs
Ablative	exitū	exitibus
Vocative	exitus	exitūs

Synonyms

• (departure): exitium

Related terms

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

 

Descendants

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

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

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.

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 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