exactus

Latin

Etymology

Passive perfect participle of exigō (“drive out”).

Participle

exāctus (feminine exācta, neuter exāctum, comparative exāctior); first/second-declension participle

1. driven out, expelled, having been driven out
2. demanded, required, enforced, exacted, having been demanded
3. weighed, having been weighed
4. determined, found out, ascertained, having been determined
   1. (by extension) precise, exact, accurate
5. endured, undergone, having been endured
6. (of time) spent, passed, having been spent
7. concluded, finished, completed, having been finished

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	exāctus	exācta	exāctum		exāctī	exāctae	exācta
Genitive	exāctī	exāctae	exāctī		exāctōrum	exāctārum	exāctōrum
Dative	exāctō		exāctō		exāctīs
Accusative	exāctum	exāctam	exāctum		exāctōs	exāctās	exācta
Ablative	exāctō	exāctā	exāctō		exāctīs
Vocative	exācte	exācta	exāctum		exāctī	exāctae	exācta

Descendants

• → Catalan: exacte
• Old French: exact
  • → English: exact
  • French: exact
• Galician: exacto
• Italian: esatto
• Occitan: exacte
• Piedmontese: esat
• Portuguese: exato
• Romanian: exact
• Spanish: exacto

References

• “exactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exactus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exactus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to die at a good old age: exacta aetate mori