exitus

exitus

See also: Exitus

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.

Noun

exitus (countable and uncountable, plural exituses)

  1. (medicine) death
    Synonyms: exitus letalis, fatality
    • 1944 November, John G. Sinclair, N. D. Schofield, “Anomalies of the cardio-pulmonary circuit compensated without a ductus arteriosus”, in The Anatomical Record, volume 90, number 3, →DOI, page 209:
      She was brought to the Emergency Room moribund and went on to exitus soon after.

Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

    From exeō (go out) + -tus (action noun forming suffix).

    Noun

    exitus m (genitive exitūs); fourth declension

    1. a departure, a going out
      Synonyms: exitium, abitus, ēgressiō
      Antonym: adventus
    2. an egress, a passage by which one may depart, exit, way out
    3. (figuratively) a conclusion, termination, outcome
      Antonym: inceptus
      • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Praefatio:
        [] ; inde tibi tuaeque rei publicae quod [e documentis] imitere capias, inde foedum inceptu foedum exitu quod vites.
        From these that would honor yourself and the state you may select, others avoid that be base in their inception, shameful in their outcome.
    4. (figuratively) death
      Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, perniciēs, somnus, fīnis, sopor
    5. (figuratively) result, event, issue
      Synonyms: successus, effectus, frūx, frūctus, ēventus, prōventus
    6. revenue, income
      Synonym: mercēs
    Declension

    Fourth-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative exitus exitūs
    genitive exitūs exituum
    dative exituī exitibus
    accusative exitum exitūs
    ablative exitū exitibus
    vocative exitus exitūs
    Descendants
    • Asturian: ésitu
    • Catalan: èxit
    • Galician: eixido, éxito
    • Italian: esito
    • Piedmontese: ésit
    • Portuguese: êxito
    • Spanish: éxito, ejido
    • English: exit
    • German: Exitus

    Etymology 2

    Perfect passive participle of exeō.

    Participle

    exitus (feminine exita, neuter exitum); first/second-declension participle

    1. gone, left, having gone out.
    Declension

    First/second-declension adjective.

    References

    • exitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • exitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "exitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • exitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
      • (ambiguous) such was the end of... (used of a violent death): talem vitae exitum (not finem) habuit (Nep. Eum. 13)
      • (ambiguous) to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: ad exitum aliquid perducere
      • (ambiguous) to turn out (well); to result (satisfactorily): eventum, exitum (felicem) habere
      • (ambiguous) the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit

    Romanian

    Etymology

    Learned borrowing from Latin exitus.

    Noun

    exitus n (uncountable)

    1. death

    Declension

    singular only indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative exitus exitusul
    genitive-dative exitus exitusului
    vocative exitusule

    Spanish

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    Unadapted borrowing from Latin exitus (departure).

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈeksitus/ [ˈeksi.t̪us]
    • Rhymes: -eksitus

    Noun

    exitus m (plural exitus)

    1. (medicine) death, decease

    Usage notes

    According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

    Further reading

    • Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “exitus”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA