Etymology

From ex- (“out of, from”) +‎ eō (“go”)Category:Latin terms prefixed with ex-#EO.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.se.oː]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#EXEOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#EXEO
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.se.o]Category:Latin 3-syllable words#EXEOCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#EXEO

Verb

exeō (present infinitive exīre, perfect active exiī or exīvī, supine exitum)Category:Latin lemmas#EXEOCategory:Latin verbs#EXEOCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#EXEOCategory:Pages with entries#EXEOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#EXEO; irregular conjugation

1. (intransitiveCategory:Latin intransitive verbs#EXEO) to exit, depart, go forth, come forth

   Synonyms: abeō, evādō, ēgredior, ēiciō

   Antonyms: introeō, intrō, ingredior, ineō, accēdō, immigrō

   Rēx ē currū exīvit. ― The king got off the chariot.Category:Latin terms with usage examples#EXEO

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.5:

     Post ēius mortem, nihilō minus Helvētiī id quod cōnstituerant facere cōnantur: ut ē fīnibus suīs exeant.

     After his death, the Helvetii nevertheless attempted to carry out that which they had decided: that from their own territories they would go forth.

     Category:Latin terms with quotations#EXEO
2. (intransitiveCategory:Latin intransitive verbs#EXEO) to avoid, evade

   Synonyms: ēvādō, ēlūdō, vītō, ēvītō, refugiō, dētrectō, āversor, abstineō, parcō, dēclīnō, fugiō

   Antonyms: dēstinō, intendō, tendō, petō, quaerō, affectō, studeō, spectō, circumspiciō

3. (intransitiveCategory:Latin intransitive verbs#EXEO, figuratively) to escape

   Synonyms: fugiō, confugiō, effugiō, ēvādō

4. (intransitiveCategory:Latin intransitive verbs#EXEO) (of time) expire, run out

   Synonym: exspīrō

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
• “exeo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (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
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook