exitium

Latin

Etymology

From the exit- stem of exeō (“I go out”) +‎ -ium (nominalizing suffix).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈsi.ti.um/, [ɛkˈsɪ.ti.ũː]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈsi.t͡si.um/, [ekˈsiː.t͡si.um]
  • Audio (Classical)(file)

Noun

exitium n (genitive exitiī or exitī); second declension

  1. destruction, ruin
  2. beginner, novice

Declension

Second declension.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative exitium exitia
Genitive exitiī
exitī1		 exitiōrum
Dative exitiō exitiīs
Accusative exitium exitia
Ablative exitiō exitiīs
Vocative exitium exitia

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

Descendants

References
  • exitium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exitium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • exitium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • exitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be ruined, undone: ad exitium vocari
    • to compass, devise a man's overthrow, ruin: perniciem (exitium) alicui afferre, moliri, parare
    • to rescue from destruction: ab exitio, ab interitu aliquem vindicare
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