exodium

Borrowed from Latin exodium.

exodium (plural exodia)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) Synonym of exode (“a comic performance after a tragedy”).
   • 1963, W[illiam] Beare, The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic, third edition, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, Inc., page 20:

     It was said that the campaigning of Crassus had ended, like a tragedy, with an exodium—which seems to mean an amusing scene.

• “exodium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “exodium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

From Ancient Greek ἐξόδιον (exódion, “dénouement”), from ἔξοδος (éxodos, “going out, proceeding out”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈsɔ.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡˈzɔː.d̪i.um]

exodium n (genitive exodiī or exodī); second declension

1. a comedy or farce given as a separate performance after a tragedy
2. (figuratively) a conclusion

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• “exodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers