Latin edit

Etymology edit

Perfect active participle of intransitive exolescō; the noun derives from the participial adjective.

Pronunciation edit

Participle edit

exolētus (feminine exolēta, neuter exolētum); first/second-declension participle

  1. matured
  2. worn-out, spent, used up
    scortum exolētum quis in prosceniō sedeat
    so that some worn-out harlot won’t sit in the proscenium
    rēmigēs exolētī
    worn-out oarsmen

Declension edit

First/second-declension adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masculine Feminine Neuter Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative exolētus exolēta exolētum exolētī exolētae exolēta
Genitive exolētī exolētae exolētī exolētōrum exolētārum exolētōrum
Dative exolētō exolētō exolētīs
Accusative exolētum exolētam exolētum exolētōs exolētās exolēta
Ablative exolētō exolētā exolētō exolētīs
Vocative exolēte exolēta exolētum exolētī exolētae exolēta

Descendants edit

  • English: exolete

Noun edit

exolētus m (genitive exolētī); second declension

  1. a male prostitute
    • 52 BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero (author), Albert Curtis Clark (editor), Pro T. Annio Milone Oratio in M. Tulli Ciceronis Orationes (1918), § 55:
      Milo qui numquam, tum casu pueros symphoniacos uxoris ducebat et ancillarum greges; ille qui semper secum scorta, semper exoletos, semper lupas duceret, tum neminem, nisi ut virum a viro lectum esse diceres.
      Milo, who was never in the habit of doing so, did by chance have with him some musical slaves belonging to his wife, and troops of maid-servants. The other man, who was always carrying with him prostitutes, worn-out debauchees, both men and women, this time had no one with him except such a band that you might have thought every one of them picked men. ― translation from: Charles Duke Yonge, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1891), “The Speech of M. T. Cicero in Defence of Titus Annius Milo”, § 55

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative exolētus exolētī
Genitive exolētī exolētōrum
Dative exolētō exolētīs
Accusative exolētum exolētōs
Ablative exolētō exolētīs
Vocative exolēte exolētī

Descendants edit

References edit

  • exoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • exoletus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • exoletus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • exolētus” on page 645/3 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

Further reading edit