exigo

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Latin exigō

From ex- + agō (“to drive”).

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.sɪ.ɡoː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.si.ɡo]

Verb

exigō (present infinitive exigere, perfect active exēgī, supine exāctum); third conjugation

to drive out; expel
Synonyms: ablēgō, exsulō, pellō, ēiciō, ēmittō, fugō
to demand, require; enforce, exact (pay)
Synonyms: requīrō, flagito, rogo, efflagito, exposco, exoro, precor, peto, expeto, quaesō, rogitō, repeto, prehenso
- 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.593–594:
  ‘et caput et rēgnum faciō dōtāle parentis:
  sī vir es, ī, dictās exige dōtis opēs.’
  “The head and the kingdom of my parent I make [my] dowry: If you are a man, go, exact the wealth of the dowry having been declared.”
  (Tullia Minor goads her husband, Lucius Tarquinius, to murder her father, King Servius Tullius.)
to execute, complete a task
to measure against a standard; weigh
to determine, find out, ascertain
to examine, consider, test
to endure, undergo
(of time) to spend, pass
to bring to an end, conclude, finish, complete

Conjugation

Conjugation of exigō (third conjugation)

indicative		singular				plural
indicative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	exigō	exigis		exigit	exigimus	exigitis		exigunt
	imperfect	exigēbam	exigēbās		exigēbat	exigēbāmus	exigēbātis		exigēbant
	future	exigam	exigēs		exiget	exigēmus	exigētis		exigent
	perfect	exēgī	exēgistī		exēgit	exēgimus	exēgistis		exēgērunt, exēgēre
	pluperfect	exēgeram	exēgerās		exēgerat	exēgerāmus	exēgerātis		exēgerant
	future perfect	exēgerō	exēgeris		exēgerit	exēgerimus	exēgeritis		exēgerint
passive	present	exigor	exigeris, exigere		exigitur	exigimur	exigiminī		exiguntur
	imperfect	exigēbar	exigēbāris, exigēbāre		exigēbātur	exigēbāmur	exigēbāminī		exigēbantur
	future	exigar	exigēris, exigēre		exigētur	exigēmur	exigēminī		exigentur
	perfect	exāctus + present active indicative of sum
	pluperfect	exāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum
	future perfect	exāctus + future active indicative of sum
subjunctive		singular				plural
subjunctive		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	exigam	exigās		exigat	exigāmus	exigātis		exigant
	imperfect	exigerem	exigerēs		exigeret	exigerēmus	exigerētis		exigerent
	perfect	exēgerim	exēgerīs		exēgerit	exēgerīmus	exēgerītis		exēgerint
	pluperfect	exēgissem	exēgissēs		exēgisset	exēgissēmus	exēgissētis		exēgissent
passive	present	exigar	exigāris, exigāre		exigātur	exigāmur	exigāminī		exigantur
	imperfect	exigerer	exigerēris, exigerēre		exigerētur	exigerēmur	exigerēminī		exigerentur
	perfect	exāctus + present active subjunctive of sum
	pluperfect	exāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum
imperative		singular				plural
imperative		first	second		third	first	second		third
active	present	—	exige		—	—	exigite		—
active	future	—	exigitō		exigitō	—	exigitōte		exiguntō
passive	present	—	exigere		—	—	exigiminī		—
passive	future	—	exigitor		exigitor	—	—		exiguntor
non-finite forms		infinitive				participle
non-finite forms		active		passive		active		passive
present		exigere		exigī		exigēns		—
future		exāctūrum esse		exāctum īrī		exāctūrus		exigendus, exigundus
perfect		exēgisse		exāctum esse		—		exāctus
future perfect		—		exāctum fore		—		—
perfect potential		exāctūrum fuisse		—		—		—
verbal nouns		gerund					supine
		genitive	dative		accusative	ablative	accusative		ablative
		exigendī	exigendō		exigendum	exigendō	exāctum		exāctū

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Asturian: esixir
→ Catalan: exigir
→ English: exact
→ French: exiger
→ Galician: esixir
→ Italian: esigere
→ Occitan: exigir
→ Piedmontese: esige
→ Portuguese: exigir
→ Romanian: exige
→ Spanish: exigir

References

“exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
“exigo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
- to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere
- to demand payment: pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
- to demand payment of, recover debts: nomina exigere (Verr. 3. 10. 28)
- to exact the taxes (with severity): vectigalia exigere (acerbe)