exigo
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈek.si.ɡoː/, [ˈɛks̠ɪɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈek.si.ɡo/, [ˈɛksiɡo]
Verb
exigō (present infinitive exigere, perfect active exēgī, supine exāctum); third conjugation
- I drive out; expel.
- I demand, require; enforce, exact (pay).
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.593-594:
- ‘et caput et rēgnum faciō dōtāle parentis:
sī vir es, ī, dictās exige dōtis opēs.’- “The head and the kingdom of my parent I make [my] dowry: If you are a man, go, exact the wealth of the dowry having been declared.”
(Tullia Minor goads her husband, Lucius Tarquinius, to murder her father, King Servius Tullius.)
- “The head and the kingdom of my parent I make [my] dowry: If you are a man, go, exact the wealth of the dowry having been declared.”
- ‘et caput et rēgnum faciō dōtāle parentis:
- I execute, complete a task.
- I measure against a standard; weigh.
- I determine, find out, ascertain.
- I examine, consider, test.
- I endure, undergo.
- (of time) I spend, pass.
- I bring to an end, conclude, finish, complete.
Conjugation
Descendants
References
- “exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
- to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere
- to demand payment: pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
- to demand payment of, recover debts: nomina exigere (Verr. 3. 10. 28)
- to exact the taxes (with severity): vectigalia exigere (acerbe)
- to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
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