exitus
See also: Exitus
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.
Noun
exitus (countable and uncountable, plural exituses)
- (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, , 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
- a departure, a going out
- an egress, a passage by which one may depart, exit, way out
- (figuratively) a conclusion, termination
- (figuratively) death
- (figuratively) result, event, issue
- 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
Descendants
Etymology 2
Perfect passive participle of exeō.
Participle
exitus (feminine exita, neuter exitum); first/second-declension participle
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
- (ambiguous) such was the end of... (used of a violent death): talem vitae exitum (not finem) habuit (Nep. Eum. 13)
Romanian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin exitus.
Noun
exitus n (uncountable)
Declension
| singular only | indefinite | definite |
|---|---|---|
| nominative-accusative | exitus | exitusul |
| genitive-dative | exitus | exitusului |
| vocative | exitusule | |
Spanish
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin exitus (“departure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeɡsitus/ [ˈeɣ̞.si.t̪us]
- Rhymes: -eɡsitus
Noun
exitus m (plural exitus)
Further reading
- Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (3 August 2023) “exitus”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]