exoletus

exoletus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈleː.tus/, [ɛks̠ɔˈɫ̪eːt̪ʊs̠]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.soˈle.tus/, [eɡzoˈlɛːt̪us]

Participle

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

1. matured
2. worn-out, spent, used up

   scortum exolētum nē quis in prosceniō sedeat

   so that some worn-out harlot won’t sit in the proscenium

   rēmigēs exolētī

   worn-out oarsmen

Declension

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

• English: exolete

Noun

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

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

• English: exoletus

References

• “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

• Exoletus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia