exitus

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.

Noun

exitus (countable and uncountable, plural exituses)

  1. (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, →DOI, page 209:
      She was brought to the Emergency Room moribund and went on to exitus soon after.

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From exeō (“go out”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

Noun

exitus m (genitive exitūs); fourth declension

  1. a departure, a going out
    Synonyms: exitium, abitus, ēgressiō
    Antonym: adventus
  2. an egress, a passage by which one may depart, exit, way out
  3. (figuratively) a conclusion, termination
  4. (figuratively) death
    Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, perniciēs, somnus, fīnis, sopor
  5. (figuratively) result, event, issue
    Synonyms: successus, effectus, frūx, frūctus, ēventus, prōventus
  6. 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
Descendants

Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of exeō.

Participle

exitus (feminine exita, neuter exitum); first/second-declension participle

  1. gone, left, having gone out.
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, 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

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin exitus.

Noun

exitus n (uncountable)

  1. death

Declension

singular only indefinite definite
nominative-accusative exitus exitusul
genitive-dative exitus exitusului
vocative exitusule
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