exitus

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.

Noun

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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

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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
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Fourth-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative exitus exitūs
genitive exitūs exituum
dative exituī exitibus
accusative exitum exitūs
ablative exitū exitibus
vocative exitus exitūs
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Descendants
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  • Catalan: èxit
  • English: exit
  • Galician: eixido, éxito
  • German: Exitus
  • Italian: esito
  • Piedmontese: ésit
  • Portuguese: êxito
  • Spanish: éxito, ejido

Etymology 2

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Perfect passive participle of exeō.

Participle

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

  1. gone, left, having gone out.
Declension
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First/second-declension adjective.

References

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  • 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[1], 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

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin exitus.

Noun

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exitus n (uncountable)

  1. death

Declension

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