exitium

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Latin

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Etymology

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From the exit- stem of exeō (I go out) +‎ -ium (nominalizing suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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exitium n (genitive exitiī or exitī); second declension

  1. a going out, egress
    Synonyms: exitus, abitus, ēgressiō
    Antonym: adventus
  2. destruction, ruin
    Synonyms: dēstrūctiō, excidium, lētum, ruīna, excidiō, pestis, dēmōlītiō, vāstātiō, devāstātiō, perniciēs, interitus, perditiō, clādēs
  3. the cause of destruction or ruin

Declension

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative exitium exitia
Genitive exitiī
exitī1
exitiōrum
Dative exitiō exitiīs
Accusative exitium exitia
Ablative exitiō exitiīs
Vocative exitium exitia

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

Descendants

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  • Italian: esizio
  • Portuguese: exício

References

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  • exitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • exitium 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)
  • exitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be ruined, undone: ad exitium vocari
    • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
    • to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare