expositus
Latin
Etymology
From exponō.
Participle
expositus (feminine exposita, neuter expositum); first/second-declension participle
- exposed
- an exposed infant or baby
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 2.413:
- venit ad expositōs (mīrum!) lupa fēta gemellōs
- A wondrous [thing happened]! [There] came towards the exposed twins a she-wolf that had just given birth.
(Twin babes Romulus and Remus had been subjected to infant exposure.)
- A wondrous [thing happened]! [There] came towards the exposed twins a she-wolf that had just given birth.
- venit ad expositōs (mīrum!) lupa fēta gemellōs
- exhibited
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | expositus | exposita | expositum | expositī | expositae | exposita | |
| Genitive | expositī | expositae | expositī | expositōrum | expositārum | expositōrum | |
| Dative | expositō | expositō | expositīs | ||||
| Accusative | expositum | expositam | expositum | expositōs | expositās | exposita | |
| Ablative | expositō | expositā | expositō | expositīs | |||
| Vocative | exposite | exposita | expositum | expositī | expositae | exposita | |
Derived terms
- expositiō
References
- “expositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “expositus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- expositus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be a victim of the malice of Fortune: ad iniurias fortunae expositum esse
- to be a victim of the malice of Fortune: ad iniurias fortunae expositum esse