exodium

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἐξόδιον (exódion, “dénouement”), from ἔξοδος (éxodos, “going out, proceeding out”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ekˈso.di.um/, [ɛkˈs̠ɔd̪iʊ̃ˑ]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈso.di.um/, [ɛɡˈzɔːd̪ium]

Noun

exodium n (genitive exodiī or exodī); second declension

  1. a comedy or farce given as a separate performance after a tragedy
  2. (figuratively) a conclusion

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative exodium exodia
Genitive exodiī
exodī1		 exodiōrum
Dative exodiō exodiīs
Accusative exodium exodia
Ablative exodiō exodiīs
Vocative exodium exodia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References
  • exodium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exodium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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