German

Noun

Ex f ‎(genitive Ex, no plural)

1. (colloquial) ex-girlfriend
2. (colloquial) ex-wife

Etymology 2

Shortened from Ex-Freund or Ex-Mann.

Noun

Ex m ‎(genitive Ex, no plural)

1. (colloquial) ex-boyfriend
2. (colloquial) ex-husband

English

Noun

ex ‎(plural exes)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter X/x.
2. (colloquial) An ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner.

   She broke up with her ex.

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Derived terms

• exray
• ex-ray

Translations

Verb

ex ‎(third-person singular simple present exes, present participle exing, simple past and past participle exed)

1. To delete; to cross out

Statistics

Anagrams

• xe

German

Verb

ex

1. Imperative singular of exen.
2. (colloquial) First-person singular present of exen.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛks]
• Hyphenation: ex

Noun

ex ‎(plural exek)

1. (colloquial) ex (ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)

Declension

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛks/
• IPA^(key): /ɛxs/

Noun

ex n ‎(genitive singular ex, nominative plural ex)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter X/x.

Declension

Italian

Noun

ex m, f ‎(invariable)

1. ex (ex-boyfriend, girlfriend)

Latin

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eks/, [ɛks]

Noun

ex ‎(indeclinable)

1. A name of the letter X.

Usage notes

• Multiple Latin names for the letter X, x have been suggested. The most common are ix or īx, ex, or a syllabic x, although there is some evidence which also supports such names for the letter as xē and xə.

Synonyms

• (name of the letter X): ix, īx

Coordinate terms

• (Latin’s names for the letters of its own alphabet): ā (A), bē (B), cē (C), dē (D), ē (E), ef (F), gē (G), hā (H), ī (I), kā (K), el (L), em (M), en (N), ō (O), pē (P), kū (Q), er (R), es (S), tē (T), ū (V), ix / īx / ex (X), ȳ/ī graeca/ypsilon (Y), zēta (Z)

References

• Arthur E. Gordon, The Letter Names of the Latin Alphabet (University of California Press, 1973; volume 9 of University of California Publications: Classical Studies), especially pages 30–31, 42–44, and 63

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰs ‎(“out”). Cognates include Ancient Greek ἐξ ‎(ex) or ἐκ ‎(ek), Old Irish ess-, a, ass, Lithuanian ìš and Old Church Slavonic из ‎(iz).

Alternative forms

as prefix:

• (before vowels, c-, qu-, t-, s-, and p- except for epascere and epotare): ex-
• (before b-, d-, g-, l-, m-, n-, r-, i-, u-) ē-
• (before f, usually assimilated to ef-): ec-

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eks/, [ɛks]

Preposition

ex

1. (with ablative) out of, from

Usage notes

• Sometimes shortened as ē. In cases where the proceeding ablative noun begins with a vowel or h, only ēx can be used. Besides that, there are no rules for when ē or ēx can be used.

Derived terms

• dēex

Related terms

• ē
• ē-
• ex librīs
• exter, extrā

Descendants

• English: ex-
• Portuguese: eis

References

• ex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• EX in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ex”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to stand out of the water: ex aqua exstare
    
  • to come to the surface: (se) ex aqua emergere
    
  • to draw off water from a river: aquam ex flumine derivare
    
  • the Rhine rises in the Alps: Rhenus oritur or profluit ex Alpibus
    
  • the tide is coming in: aestus ex alto se incitat (B. G. 3.12)
    
  • to evacuate territory: (ex) finibus excedere
    
  • to return from a journey: ex itinere redire
    
  • to leave a place: discedere a, de, ex loco aliquo
    
  • to leave a place: egredi loco; excedere ex loco
    
  • to quit a place for ever: decedere loco, de, ex loco
    
  • to dismount: descendere ex equo
    
  • the Nile rushes down from very high mountains: Nilus praecipitat ex altissimis montibus
    
  • to rush out of the house: se proripere ex domo
    
  • since the time that, since (at the beginning of a sentence): ex quo tempore or simply ex quo
    
  • to wrest from a person's hand: ex or de manibus alicui or alicuius extorquere aliquid
    
  • to go out of sight, disappear: abire ex oculis, e conspectu alicuius
    
  • a native of England: ortus ab Anglis or oriundus ex Anglis
    
  • to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man: ex pueris excedere
    
  • to have the gout: ex pedibus laborare, pedibus aegrum esse
    
  • to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere)
    
  • to sleep soundly (from fatigue): arte, graviter dormire (ex lassitudine)
    
  • to depart this life: (ex) vita excedere, ex vita abire
    
  • to depart this life: de vita exire, de (ex) vita migrare
    
  • concatenation, interdependence of causes: rerum causae aliae ex aliis nexae
    
  • important results are often produced by trivial causes: ex parvis saepe magnarum rerum momenta pendent
    
  • to originate in, arise from: ex aliqua re nasci, manare
    
  • to accrue in great abundance: ex aliqua re redundare (in or ad aliquid)
    
  • untold advantages arise from a thing: utilitas efflorescit ex aliqua re
    
  • these things have the same origin: haec ex eodem fonte fluunt, manant
    
  • from every point of view; looked at in every light: omni ex parte; in omni genere; omnibus rebus
    
  • to a certain extent: aliqua ex parte
    
  • to depend upon a thing: pendēre ex aliqua re
    
  • to be composed of; to consist of: constare ex aliqua re
    
  • it is evident from..: cernitur (in) aliqua re (not ex aliqua re)
    
  • to let success slip through one's fingers: fortunam ex manibus dimittere
    
  • his crowning happiness is produced by a thing; the culminating point of his felicity is..: ad felicitatem (magnus) cumulus accedit ex aliqua re
    
  • to rescue from peril: aliquem ex periculo eripere, servare
    
  • to raise a man from poverty to wealth: aliquem ex paupere divitem facere
    
  • to be of use: usui or ex usu esse
    
  • to derive (great) profit , advantage from a thing: fructum (uberrimum) capere, percipere, consequi ex aliqua re
    
  • (great) advantage accrues to me from this: fructus ex hac re redundant in or ad me
    
  • to find favour with some one; to get into their good graces: benevolentiam, favorem, voluntatem alicuius sibi conciliare or colligere (ex aliqua re)
    
  • according to a man's deserts: ex, pro merito
    
  • as one would wish; to one's mind: ex sententia
    
  • I heard him say..: ex eo audivi, cum diceret
    
  • to derive pleasure from a thing: voluptatem ex aliqua re capere or percipere
    
  • to recruit oneself, seek relaxation: animum relaxare, reficere, recreare or simply se reficere, se recreare, refici, recreari (ex aliqua re)
    
  • to infer by comparison, judge one thing by another: coniecturam alicuius rei facere or capere ex aliqua re
    
  • to judge others by oneself: de se (ex se de aliis) coniecturam facere
    
  • to relieve a man of his scruple: scrupulum ex animo alicuius evellere (Rosc. Am. 2. 6)
    
  • according to my strong conviction: ex animi mei sententia (vid. sect. XI. 2)
    
  • to put off from one day to another: diem ex die ducere, differre
    
  • from memory; by heart: ex memoria (opp. de scripto)
    
  • the memory of this will never fade from my mind: numquam ex animo meo memoria illius rei discedet
    
  • a thing escapes, vanishes from the memory: aliquid excidit e memoria, effluit, excidit ex animo
    
  • to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere)
    
  • to take a lesson from some one's example: sibi exemplum sumere ex aliquo or exemplum capere de aliquo
    
  • systematic succession, concatenation: continuatio seriesque rerum, ut alia ex alia nexa et omnes inter se aptae colligataeque sint (N. D. 1. 4. 9)
    
  • to derive an argument from a thing: argumentum ducere, sumere ex aliqua re or petere ab aliqua re
    
  • to draw a conclusion from a thing: concludere, colligere, efficere, cogere ex aliqua re
    
  • it follows from this that..: sequitur (not ex quo seq.) ut
    
  • it follows from this that..: ex quo, unde, hinc efficitur ut
    
  • to speak extempore: subito, ex tempore (opp. ex praeparato) dicere
    
  • there is a flavour of Atticism about his discourse: ex illius orationibus ipsae Athenae redolent
    
  • profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274)
    
  • to read a speech: de scripto orationem habere, dicere (opp. sine scripto, ex memoria)
    
  • to translate from Plato: ab or de (not ex) Platone vertere, convertere, transferre
    
  • what follows has been translated into Latin from Plato's Phaedo: ex Platonis Phaedone haec in latinum conversa sunt
    
  • to extract a word from some one: verbum ex aliquo elicere
    
  • no word escaped him: nullum verbum ex ore eius excidit (or simply ei)
    
  • to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
    
  • to make extracts from Cicero's writings: aliquid, multa ex Ciceronis libris excerpere (not excerpere librum)
    
  • to take pleasure in a thing: laetitiam capere or percipere ex aliqua re
    
  • I am pained, vexed, sorry: doleo aliquid, aliqua re, de and ex aliqua re
    
  • to be vexed about a thing: dolorem capere (percipere) ex aliqua re
    
  • to undergo severe trouble, trials: magnum luctum haurire (without ex-)
    
  • to feel sorrow about a thing: luctum percipere ex aliqua re
    
  • to recover from one's fright: ex metu se recreare, se colligere
    
  • to stifle, repress all humane sentiments in one's mind: omnem humanitatem ex animo exstirpare (Amic. 13. 48)
    
  • to love deeply: aliquem ex animo or ex animi sententia amare (Q. Fr. 1. 1. 5)
    
  • to banish love from one's mind: amorem ex animo eicere
    
  • to banish all feeling of prejudice from the mind: suspicionem ex animo delere
    
  • to make a person odious, unpopular: invidiam, odium ex-, concitare alicui, in aliquem
    
  • to live as scrupulously moral a life as ever: nihil ex pristina virtute remittere
    
  • to measure something by the standard of something else; to make something one's criterion: metiri, ponderare, aestimare, iudicare aliquid (ex) aliqua re
    
  • to banish devout sentiment from the minds of others: religionem ex animis extrahere (N. D. 1. 43. 121)
    
  • I swear on my conscience: ex animi mei sententia iuro
    
  • sole heir; heir to three-quarters of the estate: heres ex asse, ex dodrante
    
  • heir to two-thirds of the property: heres ex besse
    
  • according to my custom: ex consuetudine mea (opp. praeter consuetudinem)
    
  • according to traditional usage: ex instituto (Liv. 6. 10. 6)
    
  • to have a large income from a thing (e.g. from mines): magnas pecunias ex aliqua re (e.g. ex metallis) facere
    
  • the rate of interest has gone up from 4 per cent to 8 per cent: fenus ex triente Id. Quint. factum erat bessibus (Att. 4. 15. 7)
    
  • to make profit out of a thing: lucrum facere (opp. damnum facere) ex aliqua re
    
  • to get out of debt: ex aere alieno exire
    
  • to depose, bring down a person from his elevated position: aliquem ex altissimo dignitatis gradu praecipitare (Dom. 37. 98)
    
  • to raise oneself by another's fall: crescere ex aliquo
    
  • to profit by the unpopularity of the senate to gain influence oneself: crescere ex invidia senatoria
    
  • to use some one's unpopularity as a means of making oneself popular: ex invidia alicuius auram popularem petere (Liv. 22. 26)
    
  • owing to political dissension: ex rei publicae dissensione
    
  • to banish a person, send him into exile: ex urbe (civitate) expellere, pellere aliquem
    
  • to expel a person from the city, country: exterminare (ex) urbe, de civitate aliquem (Mil. 37. 101)
    
  • to deliver the state from a tyranny: rem publicam in libertatem vindicare a or ex dominatione
    
  • the public income from the mines: pecunia publica, quae ex metallis redit
    
  • to go to law with a person: (ex) iure, lege agere cum aliquo
    
  • justly and equitably: ex aequo et bono (Caecin. 23. 65)
    
  • to make a sally, sortie from the town: eruptionem facere ex oppido
    
  • to make a sally, sortie from the town: crebras ex oppido excursiones facere (B. G. 2. 30)
    
  • to fight on horseback: ex equo pugnare
    
  • soldiers routed and dispersed: ex (in) fuga dissipati or dispersi (B. G. 2. 24)
    
  • to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
    
  • to triumph over some one: triumphare de aliquo (ex bellis)
    
  • to triumph over some one: triumphum agere de or ex aliquo or c. Gen. (victoriae, pugnae)
    
  • according to treaty: ex pacto, ex foedere
    
  • the ships sail from the harbour: naves ex portu solvunt
    
  • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • the storm drives some one on an unknown coast: procella (tempestas) aliquem ex alto ad ignotas terras (oras) defert
    
  • to land, disembark: exire ex, de navi
    
  • much damage was done by this collision: ex eo navium concursu magnum incommodum est acceptum
    
  • from this it appears, is apparent: ex quo intellegitur or intellegi potest, debet
    
  • from this it appears, is apparent: ex quo perspicuum est
    
• ex in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• ex in William Smith., editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 195f

Portuguese

Noun

ex m f (plural ex)

1. (colloquial) ex (an ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner)

Spanish

Noun

ex m, f ‎(plural ex)

1. ex (ex-husband, ex-wife or ex-partner).

Adjective

ex ‎(indeclinable)

1. Former; referring to a condition that has ended.

Usage notes

In many cases this is interchangeable with using ex-; for example, the former governor of a province could be called the ex gobernador or the exgobernador.

Swedish

Noun

ex n

1. (colloquial) ex; ex-partner

Declension