exode

See also: Exode

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin exodium.

Noun

exode (plural exodes)

1. (obsolete) departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bolingbroke to this entry?)

   • 1868, Lyman Coleman, An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography (page 45)

     Moreover, the continuation of the Mosaic Dispensation from the Exode, 1586, to the burning of the second temple, A.D. 70 = 1656, is exactly the period before the Flood.

2. (Ancient Greek drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
3. (historical, Ancient Rome) A comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “exode”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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French

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Late Latin exodus, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, departure”), from ἐξ (ex, “out”) + ὁδός (hodós, “path, road”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zɔd/

Noun

exode m (plural exodes)

1. exodus

Derived terms

• exode des capitaux m
• exode des cerveaux m

Further reading

• “exode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.