exsul

Latin

Alternative forms

• exul

Etymology

Many suggestions:

• From Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“to spring”) (whence saliō).
• From Proto-Indo-European *h₂el- (“to wander”).
• From solum.

See also praesul, cōnsul.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈek.sul/, [ˈɛks̠ʊɫ̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈek.sul/, [ˈɛksul]

Noun

exsul m or f (genitive exsulis); third declension

1. A person who is exiled, exile, wanderer.

   Synonym: extorris

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exsul	exsulēs
genitive	exsulis	exsulum
dative	exsulī	exsulibus
accusative	exsulem	exsulēs
ablative	exsule	exsulibus
vocative	exsul	exsulēs

Derived terms

• exsilium
• exsulō

Descendants

• Italian: esule

References

• “exsul”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exsul”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exsul in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live in exile: in exsilio esse, exsulem esse