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Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“seek out”).
Pronunciation
Participle
exquīsītus (feminine exquīsīta, neuter exquīsītum, superlative exquīsītissimus); first/second-declension participle
- sought out, searched for, hunted up, ascertained, having been sought out
- inquired into, having been inquired into
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exquisitus 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)
- exquisitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
- good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
- profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274)