expositus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of exponō.

Participle

expositus (feminine exposita, neuter expositum); first/second-declension participle

  1. exposed
  2. 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.)
  3. 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

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
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