# exemplum
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exemplum (“example”). Doublet of example and sample.

### Noun

exemplum (plural exempla)
* An example.
* A story demonstrating a moral point; a parable.
** 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 90:In the Middle Ages preachers had enlivened their sermons with exempla – edifying tales of judgements upon sinners and mercies shown to the pious.

#### Related terms

* exemplum virtutis

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɛɡzɛmplum]

### Noun

exemplum n
* (literary) a story demonstrating a moral point

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “exemplum”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Latin
### Etymology

Similar formation as exēmptus, perfect passive participle of eximō (“take out, take away”)

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ekˈsem.plum/, [ɛkˈs̠ɛmpɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ekˈsem.plum/, [eɡˈzɛmplum]

### Noun

exemplum n (genitive exemplī); second declension
* a sample, example
* (in particular) a warning example, deterrent
    Synonyms: documentum, monitus
    esse in exemplō ― to serve as a warning
* torture, exemplary penalty, chastisement
    Synonyms: cruciātus, pūnītiō, mercēs, poena, supplicium, sanctio, vindicātiō, pretium, animadversus, malum
* deed, memorable circumstance
* precedent, case, custom
    Synonyms: mos, solitum, usus
* depiction, paint
* confrontation, comparison
* a copy or transcript

#### Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

#### Derived terms

* exemplar
* exemplāris
* exemplō
* exemplī causā
* exemplī grātiā abbreviated "e.g."
* exemplī locō

#### Descendants

* Italo-Dalmatian:
** Italian: scempio
** Sicilian: scempru

##### Borrowings

* → Albanian: shembull
* → Alemannic German: Xämpeli
* → Aragonese: eixemplo
* → Catalan: exemple
* → Friulian: esempli
* → Middle High German: exempel
** German: Exempel
* → Italian: esempio (semi-learned)
* → Occitan: exemple
* → Old French: essainple, essample, ensaumple, example (see there for further descendants)
* → Old Galician-Portuguese: exemplo, eixemplo
** Galician: exemplo
** Portuguese: exemplo
* → Ladino: enshemplo, egzempyo
* → Romansch: exempel
* → Romanian: exemplu
* → Sicilian: asempiu, esempiu, isempiu, sempiu (italianized)
* → Spanish: ejemplo
* → Swedish: exempel
* → Venetan: exenpio (semi-learned)
** → Cimbrian: ezèmpien
* → Welsh: esiampl

### References

* “exemplum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* exemplum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
* “exemplum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* exemplum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* exemplum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. a good,[1] brilliant example; a striking example: exemplum clarum, praeclarum a good, brilliant example; a striking example: exemplum luculentum a good, brilliant example; a striking example: exemplum illustre a weighty example, precedent: exemplum magnum, grande to quote an example: exemplum afferre to quote an example: exemplo uti to cite a person or a thing as an example: aliquem (aliquid) exempli causa ponere, proferre, nominare, commemorare to quote precedents for a thing: aliquid exemplis probare, comprobare, confirmare to demonstrate by instances: aliquid exemplis ostendere to borrow instances from history: exempla petere, repetere a rerum gestarum memoria or historiarum (annalium, rerum gestarum) monumentis examples taken from Roman (Greek) history: exempla a rerum Romanarum (Graecarum) memoria petita to collect, accumulate instances: multa exempla in unum (locum) colligere to choose one from a large number of instances: ex infinita exemplorum copia unum (pauca) sumere, decerpere (eligere) to quote Socrates as a model of virtue: a Socrate exemplum virtutis petere, repetere standard and pattern: auctoritas et exemplum (Balb. 13. 31) to set up some one as one's ideal, model: sibi exemplum alicuius proponere ad imitandum or simply sibi aliquem ad imitandum proponere to take a lesson from some one's example: sibi exemplum sumere ex aliquo or exemplum capere de aliquo to shape one's conduct after another's model: ad exemplum alicuius se conformare to set an example: exemplum edere, prodere to set an example: exemplo esse to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum in aliquo or in aliquem statuere to inflict an exemplary punishment on some one: exemplum (severitatis) edere in aliquo (Q. Fr. 1. 2. 2. 5) the text of the author (not textus): verba, oratio, exemplum scriptoris a letter, the tenor of which is..: litterae hoc exemplo (Att. 9. 6. 3)