exodium

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exodium.

Noun

exodium (plural exodia)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) Synonym of exode (“a comic performance after a tragedy”)
   • 1963, W[illiam] Beare, The Roman Stage: A Short History of Latin Drama in the Time of the Republic, third edition, New York, N.Y.: Barnes & Noble, Inc., page 20:

     It was said that the campaigning of Crassus had ended, like a tragedy, with an exodium—which seems to mean an amusing scene.

Related terms

• exodus

References

• “exodium”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “exodium, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐξόδιον (exódion, “dénouement”), from ἔξοδος (éxodos, “going out, proceeding out”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ekˈso.di.um/, [ɛkˈs̠ɔd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈso.di.um/, [eɡˈzɔːd̪ium]

Noun

exodium n (genitive exodiī or exodī); second declension

1. a comedy or farce given as a separate performance after a tragedy
2. (figuratively) a conclusion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	exodium	exodia
genitive	exodiī exodī1	exodiōrum
dative	exodiō	exodiīs
accusative	exodium	exodia
ablative	exodiō	exodiīs
vocative	exodium	exodia

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

References

• “exodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers