Latin

Noun

exitus m ‎(genitive exitūs); fourth declension

1. a departure, a going out
2. an egress, a passage by which one may depart
3. (figuratively) a conclusion, termination
4. (figuratively) death
5. (figuratively) result, event, issue
6. revenue, income

Inflection

Fourth declension.

Synonyms

• (departure): exitium

Descendants

Related terms

Etymology 2

Participle

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

1. gone, left, having gone out.

Inflection

First/second declension.

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exitus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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