Latin

Verb

exeō ‎(present infinitive exīre, perfect active exiī, supine exitum); irregular conjugation

1. I exit, depart.

   Rex e curru exivit.

   The king got off the chariot.

2. I avoid, evade.
3. (figuratively) I escape.
4. (of time) I expire, run out.

Inflection

Irregular conjugation, but similar to fourth conjugation. The third principal part is most often contracted to exiī, but occasionally appears as exīvī.

Related terms

• exitus

Descendants

References

• exeo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exeo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exeo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to go in at, go out of a gate: portā ingredi, exire
    
  • to depart this life: de vita exire, de (ex) vita migrare
    
  • to become known, become a topic of common conversation (used of things): foras efferri, palam fieri, percrebrescere, divulgari, in medium proferri, exire, emanare
    
  • this word ends in a long syllable: haec vox longa syllaba terminatur, in longam syllabam cadit, exit
    
  • to go out of the house: foras exire (Plaut. Amph. 1. 2. 35)
    
  • to get out of debt: ex aere alieno exire
    
  • to banish a man from his native land: e patria exire iubere aliquem
    
  • the ships sail out on a fair wind: ventum (tempestatem) nancti idoneum ex portu exeunt
    
  • to land, disembark: exire ex, de navi
    
  • to land, disembark: exire, egredi in terram
    
  • (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