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Latin
Etymology
From the exit- stem of exeō (“I go out”) + -ium (nominalizing suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
exitium n (genitive exitiī or exitī); second declension
- a going out, egress
- Synonyms: exitus, abitus, ēgressiō
- Antonym: adventus
- destruction, ruin
- Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, excidium, lētum, ruīna, excidiō, pestis, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, interitus, perditiō, clādēs
- the cause of destruction or ruin
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “exitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exitium 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)
- exitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be ruined, undone: ad exitium vocari
- to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
- to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare