exquisitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“seek out”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.skʷiːˈsiː.tus/, [ɛks̠kʷiːˈs̠iːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eks.kwiˈsi.tus/, [ekskwiˈs̬iːt̪us]

Participle

exquīsītus (feminine exquīsīta, neuter exquīsītum, superlative exquīsītissimus); first/second-declension participle

1. sought out, searched for, hunted up, ascertained, having been sought out
2. inquired into, having been inquired into

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	exquīsītus	exquīsīta	exquīsītum		exquīsītī	exquīsītae	exquīsīta
Genitive	exquīsītī	exquīsītae	exquīsītī		exquīsītōrum	exquīsītārum	exquīsītōrum
Dative	exquīsītō		exquīsītō		exquīsītīs
Accusative	exquīsītum	exquīsītam	exquīsītum		exquīsītōs	exquīsītās	exquīsīta
Ablative	exquīsītō	exquīsītā	exquīsītō		exquīsītīs
Vocative	exquīsīte	exquīsīta	exquīsītum		exquīsītī	exquīsītae	exquīsīta

Descendants

• → English: exquisite
• → French: exquis
• → Italian: squisito
• → Portuguese: esquisito
• → Spanish: exquisito

References

• “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exquisitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• exquisitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
    
  • good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
    
  • profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274)