expositus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of exponō.

Participle

expositus (feminine exposita, neuter expositum); first/second-declension participle

1. exposed
2. an exposed infant or baby
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.413:

     venit ad expositōs (mīrum!) lupa fēta gemellōs

     A wondrous [thing happened]! [There] came towards the exposed twins a she-wolf that had just given birth.
     (Twin babes Romulus and Remus had been subjected to infant exposure.)

3. exhibited

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	expositus	exposita	expositum		expositī	expositae	exposita
genitive	expositī	expositae	expositī		expositōrum	expositārum	expositōrum
dative	expositō	expositae	expositō		expositīs
accusative	expositum	expositam	expositum		expositōs	expositās	exposita
ablative	expositō	expositā	expositō		expositīs
vocative	exposite	exposita	expositum		expositī	expositae	exposita

Derived terms

• expositiō

References

• “expositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “expositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• expositus 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 a victim of the malice of Fortune: ad iniurias fortunae expositum esse