exquisitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“seek out”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.skʷiːˈsiː.tus/, [ɛk.skᶣiːˈsiː.tʊs]
Participle
exquīsītus m (feminine exquīsīta, neuter exquīsītum); first/second declension
- sought out, searched for, hunted up, ascertained, having been sought out
- inquired into, having been inquired into
Inflection
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | exquīsītus | exquīsīta | exquīsītum | exquīsītī | exquīsītae | exquīsīta | |
Genitive | exquīsītī | exquīsītae | exquīsītī | exquīsītōrum | exquīsītārum | exquīsītōrum | |
Dative | exquīsītō | exquīsītae | exquīsītō | exquīsītīs | exquīsītīs | exquīsītīs | |
Accusative | exquīsītum | exquīsītam | exquīsītum | exquīsītōs | exquīsītās | exquīsīta | |
Ablative | exquīsītō | exquīsītā | exquīsītō | exquīsītīs | exquīsītīs | exquīsītīs | |
Vocative | exquīsīte | exquīsīta | exquīsītum | exquīsītī | exquīsītae | exquīsīta |
Descendants
References
- exquisitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- exquisitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exquisitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- exquisitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
- good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
- profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274)
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
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