exodium

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exodium.

Noun

exodium (plural exodia)

  1. (historical, Ancient Rome) Synonym of exode (“a comic performance after a tragedy”)
    • 1963, W 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.

References

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative exodium exodia
genitive exodiī
exodī1 		exodiōrum
dative exodiō exodiīs
accusative exodium exodia
ablative exodiō exodiīs
vocative exodium exodia

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

References

  • “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
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