# exitus
## English
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.

### Noun

exitus (countable and uncountable, plural exituses)
* (medicine) death
    Synonyms: exitus letalis, fatality
** 1944 November, John G. Sinclair, N. D. Schofield, “Anomalies of the cardio-pulmonary circuit compensated without a ductus arteriosus”, in The Anatomical Record, volume 90, number 3, →DOI, page 209:She was brought to the Emergency Room moribund and went on to exitus soon after.

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈek.si.tus/, [ˈɛks̠ɪt̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈek.si.tus/, [ˈɛksit̪us]

### Etymology 1

From exeō (“go out”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

#### Noun

exitus m (genitive exitūs); fourth declension
* a departure, a going out
    Synonyms: exitium, abitus, ēgressiō
    Antonym: adventus
* an egress, a passage by which one may depart, exit, way out
* (figuratively) a conclusion, termination
* (figuratively) death
    Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, perniciēs, somnus, fīnis, sopor
* (figuratively) result, event, issue
    Synonyms: successus, effectus, frūx, frūctus, ēventus, prōventus
* revenue, income
    Synonym: mercēs

##### Declension

Fourth-declension noun.

##### Related terms

* exitiābilis
* exitiālis
* exitiō
* exitiōsē
* exitiōsus
* exitium

##### Descendants

* Asturian: ésitu
* Catalan: èxit
* Galician: eixido, éxito
* Italian: esito
* Piedmontese: ésit
* Portuguese: êxito
* Spanish: éxito, ejido
* → English: exit
* → German: Exitus

### Etymology 2

Perfect passive participle of exeō.

#### Participle

exitus (feminine exita, neuter exitum); first/second-declension participle
* gone, left, having gone out.

##### Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

### 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* exitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (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

## Romanian
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus.

### Noun

exitus n (uncountable)
* death

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Alternative forms

* éxitus

### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus (“departure”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈeɡsitus/ [ˈeɣ̞.si.t̪us]
* Rhymes: -eɡsitus

### Noun

exitus m (plural exitus)
* (medicine) death

### Further reading

* Manuel Seco, Olimpia Andrés, Gabino Ramos (2023 August 3) “exitus”, in Diccionario del español actual [Dictionary of Current Spanish] (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA [BBVA Foundation]