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Ido
Verb
exhaustus
- conditional of exhaustar
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of exhauriō (“draw out, take out”).
Pronunciation
Participle
exhaustus (feminine exhausta, neuter exhaustum); first/second-declension participle
- (of liquids) drawn out, exhausted, drained off, emptied, depleted, having been exhausted
- (of non-liquids) taken out, used up, depleted, pillaged, emptied out, having been used up
- (figuratively) taken away, removed, cleared off, having been taken away
- (figuratively) carried through, brought to an end, accomplished, fulfilled, exhausted, endured; having been carried…etc.
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.13-14:
- “ Heu, quibus ille / iactātus fātīs! Quae bella exhausta canēbat!”
- “Alas! By what destinies that has been assailed! He told of having endured such wars!”
(Translations vary – Knight, 1956: “horrors of war, endured to the bitterest end”; Mandelbaum, 1971: “what trying wars he lived to tell”; West, 1990: “what a bitter cup of war he has had to drain”; Lombardo, 2005: “the wars he painted, fought to the bitter end”; Fagles, 2006: “what a bitter bowl of war he’s drunk to the dregs”; Ahl, 2007: “what wearying wars”.)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “exhaustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exhaustus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exhaustus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.