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Latin
Etymology
Passive perfect participle of exigō (“drive out”).
Participle
exāctus (feminine exācta, neuter exāctum, comparative exāctior); first/second-declension participle
- driven out, expelled, having been driven out
- demanded, required, enforced, exacted, having been demanded
- weighed, having been weighed
- determined, found out, ascertained, having been determined
- (by extension) precise, exact, accurate
- endured, undergone, having been endured
- (of time) spent, passed, having been spent
- concluded, finished, completed, having been finished
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “exactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori