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exeo

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Latin

Etymology

From ex- (“out of, from”) +‎ eō (“go”).

Pronunciation

Verb

exeō (present infinitive exīre, perfect active exiī or exīvī, supine exitum); irregular conjugation

  1. (intransitive) to exit, depart, go forth, come forth
    Synonyms: abeō, evādō, ēgredior, ēiciō
    Antonyms: introeō, intrō, ingredior, ineō, accēdō, immigrō
    Rēx ē currū exīvit. ― The king got off the chariot.
    • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.5:
      Post ēius mortem, nihilō minus Helvētiī id quod cōnstituerant facere cōnantur: ut ē fīnibus suīs exeant.
      After his death, the Helvetii nevertheless attempted to carry out that which they had decided: that from their own territories they would go forth.
  2. (intransitive) to avoid, evade
    Synonyms: ēvādō, ēlūdō, vītō, ēvītō, refugiō, dētrectō, āversor, abstineō, parcō, dēclīnō, fugiō
    Antonyms: dēstinō, intendō, tendō, petō, quaerō, affectō, studeō, spectō, circumspiciō
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) to escape
    Synonyms: fugiō, confugiō, effugiō, ēvādō
  4. (intransitive) (of time) expire, run out
    Synonym: exspīrō

Conjugation

Irregular, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to exiī, but occasionally appears as exīvī.

   Conjugation of exeō (irregular conjugation)
More information indicative, singular ...

Descendants

  • Eastern Romance:
    • Romanian: ieși, ieșire
    • Aromanian: es, ishiri
    • Istro-Romanian: ieši
    • Megleno-Romanian: ies, ișiri, ișǫri
  • North Italian:
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Mozarabic: אשיד (ʔšyd)
    • Old Navarro-Aragonese: exir, ixir
    • Old Leonese: exir
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: eixir
      • Galician: eixir (archaic)
    • Old Spanish: exir
  • Insular Romance;
    • Sardinian:
      Campidanese: bessire, bessì
      Logudorese: issire
      Nuorese: essire, issire
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *inexire
  • Borrowings:
    • →⇒ English: exit

References

  • “exeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “exeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “exeo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to go in at, go out of a gate: portā ingredi, exire
    • to depart this life: de vita exire, de (ex) vita migrare
    • to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    • this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
    • to go out of the house: foras exire (Plaut. Amph. 1. 2. 35)
    • to get out of debt: ex aere alieno exire
    • to banish a man from his native land: e patria exire iubere aliquem
    • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    • to land, disembark: exire ex, de navi
    • to land, disembark: exire, egredi in terram
    • (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
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