exquisitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“seek out”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ek.skʷiːˈsiː.tus/, [ɛks̠kʷiːˈs̠iːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /eks.kwiˈsi.tus/, [ekskwiˈs̬iːt̪us]
Participle
exquīsītus (feminine exquīsīta, neuter exquīsītum, superlative exquīsītissimus); first/second-declension participle
- sought out, searched for, hunted up, ascertained, having been sought out
- inquired into, having been inquired into
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | exquīsītus | exquīsīta | exquīsītum | exquīsītī | exquīsītae | exquīsīta | |
| Genitive | exquīsītī | exquīsītae | exquīsītī | exquīsītōrum | exquīsītārum | exquīsītōrum | |
| Dative | exquīsītō | exquīsītō | exquīsītīs | ||||
| Accusative | exquīsītum | exquīsītam | exquīsītum | exquīsītōs | exquīsītās | exquīsīta | |
| Ablative | exquīsītō | exquīsītā | exquīsītō | exquīsītīs | |||
| Vocative | exquīsīte | exquīsīta | exquīsītum | exquīsītī | exquīsītae | exquīsīta | |
Descendants
References
- “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exquisitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- exquisitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
- good taste; delicate perception: iudicium subtile, elegans, exquisitum, intellegens
- profound sentiments: sententiae reconditae ex exquisitae (Brut. 97. 274)
- sound knowledge; scholarship: doctrina exquisita, subtilis, elegans
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