exode

From Latin exodium.

exode (plural exodes)

1. (obsolete) departure; exodus, especially the exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
   • a. 1751, Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, an essay

     constant or standing miracles before the exode , at the exode , in the wilderness , in the promised land , under their judges , and under their kings

   • 1868, Lyman Coleman, An Historical Text Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography (page 45)

     Moreover, the continuation of the Mosaic Dispensation from the Exode, 1586, to the burning of the second temple, A.D. 70 = 1656, is exactly the period before the Flood.

2. (Ancient Greek drama) The final chorus; the catastrophe.
3. (historical, Ancient Rome) A comic afterpiece, either a farce or a travesty.

• exode in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

From Late Latin exodus, from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “expedition, departure”), from ἐξ (ex, “out”) + ὁδός (hodós, “path, road”).

• IPA^(key): /ɛɡ.zɔd/

exode m (plural exodes)

1. exodus
   • 1991, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Public Accounts, Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence

     Il s'agit d'une possibilité envisagée, et si l'on prend des mesures, je ne crois pas cela provoquerait un exode massif de sociétés canadiennes.

• exode des capitaux m
• exode des cerveaux m

• “exode”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.