exuviae

Learned borrowing from Latin exuviae, from exuō (“cast off, undress”).^[1]

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exuviae

1. plural of exuvia

exuviae pl (plural only)

1. The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods.

   Synonyms: exuvium, exuvia

2. (historical, military) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.

• exuviable
• exuvial

From exuō. Compare induviae.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛkˈsʊ.wi.ae̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡˈzuː.vi.e]

exuviae f pl (genitive exuviārum); first declension

1. spoils, booty
2. skin of a snake etc. sloughed off
3. remains (that which has been taken off)

First-declension noun, plural only.

• exuvia
• exuvium

exuviae

1. inflection of exuvia:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

• “exuviae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exuviae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exuviae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.