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Latin
Etymology
Perfect active participle of intransitive exolescō; the noun derives from the participial adjective.
Pronunciation
Participle
exolētus (feminine exolēta, neuter exolētum); first/second-declension participle
- matured
- worn-out, spent, used up
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
Noun
exolētus m (genitive exolētī); second declension
- male prostitute
- 52 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero (author), Albert Curtis Clark (editor), Pro T. Annio Milone Oratio in M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes (1918), § 55:
- Milo qui numquam, tum casu pueros symphoniacos uxoris ducebat et ancillarum greges; ille qui semper secum scorta, semper exoletos, semper lupas duceret, tum neminem, nisi ut virum a viro lectum esse diceres.
- Milo, who was never in the habit of doing so, did by chance have with him some musical slaves belonging to his wife, and troops of maid-servants. The other man, who was always carrying with him prostitutes, worn-out debauchees, both men and women, this time had no one with him except such a band that you might have thought every one of them picked men. ― translation from: Charles Duke Yonge, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1891), “The Speech of M. T. Cicero in Defence of Titus Annius Milo”, § 55
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “exoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exoletus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “exolētus” on page 645/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
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