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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=Plautus|origins=ine-pro *h₁ey-}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [ˈɛk.se.oː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [ˈɛk.se.o]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''exeō''' (present infinitive exīre, perfect active exiī or exīvī, supine exitum); irregular conjugation^(Wiktionary)
+ Perfect ''exiī'', rarely ''exīvī'', ''exit'' also stands for ''exiit'' in Plautus and Virgil.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ It is from [[ex-]] “out” and [[eō]] “to go”.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan traces ⟨eō⟩ to [[ine-pro|*h₁ey-|t=to go]].^(de Vaan 2008)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ The OLD's earliest citations are from Plautus, of going out.^(OLD 2012) Köbler dates Plautus c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant to go or come out, as in Plautus; of things to issue, emerge, as in Varro; to escape, get away, as in Cicero; to go beyond a limit; to pass out of a condition; to die, as in Seneca; of time to expire, as in Cicero; of plants to sprout, as in Varro; to rise up, extend; to turn into, and of words to end in; to result; and with an accusative to go beyond, exceed, as in Terence.^(OLD 2012)
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+ In Ecclesiastical Latin it meant to go out, depart.^(Stelten 1995) It survives in Romanian ''ieși'', Italian ''uscire'' and Old French ''issir''.^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 116–27 BC – Varro uses it of things issuing and plants sprouting.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of escaping and of time.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Verb===
+ # To go out, come out; to issue, emerge.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To escape.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To die, (of time) to [[m|en|expire]].^(OLD 2012)
+ # To sprout; to extend.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To end in; to result.^(OLD 2012)
+ # To go beyond, exceed.^(OLD 2012)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[exitiō]]
+ * [[exitium]]
+ * [[exitus]]
+ * [[perexeo]]
+ * [[superexeo]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[eō]]
+ * [[abeō]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}