exigo

Latin

Etymology

From ex- +‎ agō (I drive).

Pronunciation

Verb

exigō (present infinitive exigere, perfect active exēgī, supine exāctum); third conjugation

  1. to drive out; expel
    Synonyms: ablēgō, exsulō, pellō, ēiciō, ēmittō, fugō
  2. to demand, require; enforce, exact (pay)
    Synonyms: requīrō, flagito, rogo, efflagito, exposco, exoro, precor, peto, expeto, quaesō, rogitō, repeto, prehenso
    • 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.)
  3. to execute, complete a task
  4. to measure against a standard; weigh
  5. to determine, find out, ascertain
  6. to examine, consider, test
  7. to endure, undergo
  8. (of time) to spend, pass
  9. to bring to an end, conclude, finish, complete

Conjugation

Derived terms

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[1], 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)