exigo
Latin
Etymology
From ex- + agō (“I drive”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈek.si.ɡoː/, [ˈɛks̠ɪɡoː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈek.si.ɡo/, [ˈɛksiɡo]
Verb
exigō (present infinitive exigere, perfect active exēgī, supine exāctum); third conjugation
- I drive out; expel.
- Synonyms: ablēgō, exsulō, pellō, ēiciō, ēmittō, fugō
- I demand, require; enforce, exact (pay).
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.593-594:
- ‘et caput et rēgnum faciō dōtāle parentis:
sī vir es, ī, dictās exige dōtis opēs.’- “The head and the kingdom of my parent I make [my] dowry: If you are a man, go, exact the wealth of the dowry having been declared.”
(Tullia Minor goads her husband, Lucius Tarquinius, to murder her father, King Servius Tullius.)
- “The head and the kingdom of my parent I make [my] dowry: If you are a man, go, exact the wealth of the dowry having been declared.”
- ‘et caput et rēgnum faciō dōtāle parentis:
- Synonyms: requīrō, flagito, rogo, efflagito, exposco, exoro, precor, peto, expeto, quaesō, rogitō, repeto, prehenso
- I execute, complete a task.
- I measure against a standard; weigh.
- I determine, find out, ascertain.
- I examine, consider, test.
- I endure, undergo.
- (of time) I spend, pass.
- I bring to an end, conclude, finish, complete.
Conjugation
| Conjugation of exigō (third conjugation) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indicative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | exigō | exigis | exigit | exigimus | exigitis | exigunt |
| imperfect | exigēbam | exigēbās | exigēbat | exigēbāmus | exigēbātis | exigēbant | |
| future | exigam | exigēs | exiget | exigēmus | exigētis | exigent | |
| perfect | exēgī | exēgistī | exēgit | exēgimus | exēgistis | exēgērunt, exēgēre | |
| pluperfect | exēgeram | exēgerās | exēgerat | exēgerāmus | exēgerātis | exēgerant | |
| future perfect | exēgerō | exēgeris | exēgerit | exēgerimus | exēgeritis | exēgerint | |
| passive | present | exigor | exigeris, exigere | exigitur | exigimur | exigiminī | exiguntur |
| imperfect | exigēbar | exigēbāris, exigēbāre | exigēbātur | exigēbāmur | exigēbāminī | exigēbantur | |
| future | exigar | exigēris, exigēre | exigētur | exigēmur | exigēminī | exigentur | |
| perfect | exāctus + present active indicative of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | exāctus + imperfect active indicative of sum | ||||||
| future perfect | exāctus + future active indicative of sum | ||||||
| subjunctive | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | exigam | exigās | exigat | exigāmus | exigātis | exigant |
| imperfect | exigerem | exigerēs | exigeret | exigerēmus | exigerētis | exigerent | |
| perfect | exēgerim | exēgerīs | exēgerit | exēgerīmus | exēgerītis | exēgerint | |
| pluperfect | exēgissem | exēgissēs | exēgisset | exēgissēmus | exēgissētis | exēgissent | |
| passive | present | exigar | exigāris, exigāre | exigātur | exigāmur | exigāminī | exigantur |
| imperfect | exigerer | exigerēris, exigerēre | exigerētur | exigerēmur | exigerēminī | exigerentur | |
| perfect | exāctus + present active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| pluperfect | exāctus + imperfect active subjunctive of sum | ||||||
| imperative | singular | plural | |||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| active | present | — | exige | — | — | exigite | — |
| future | — | exigitō | exigitō | — | exigitōte | exiguntō | |
| passive | present | — | exigere | — | — | exigiminī | — |
| future | — | exigitor | exigitor | — | — | exiguntor | |
| non-finite forms | active | passive | |||||
| present | perfect | future | present | perfect | future | ||
| infinitives | exigere | exēgisse | exāctūrum esse | exigī | exāctum esse | exāctum īrī | |
| participles | exigēns | — | exāctūrus | — | exāctus | exigendus, exigundus | |
| verbal nouns | gerund | supine | |||||
| genitive | dative | accusative | ablative | accusative | ablative | ||
| exigendī | exigendō | exigendum | exigendō | exāctum | exāctū | ||
Derived terms
- exāctor
- exāctus
- exagium
- exāmen
- exiguus
Descendants
- → Asturian: esixir
- → Catalan: exigir
- → French: exiger
- → Galician: esixir
- → Italian: esigere
- → Occitan: exigir
- → Piedmontese: esige
- → Portuguese: exigir
- → Romanian: exige
- → Spanish: exigir
References
- “exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exigo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exigo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)
- to hiss an actor off the stage: histrionem exsibilare, explodere, eicere, exigere
- to demand payment: pecuniam exigere (acerbe)
- to demand payment of, recover debts: nomina exigere (Verr. 3. 10. 28)
- to exact the taxes (with severity): vectigalia exigere (acerbe)
- to hiss a play: fabulam exigere (Ter. Andr. Pol.)