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exodos
Exodos comes from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος ‘a departure’, and goes back to ὁδός ‘path, road’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδόςhodós‘path, road’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἔξοδοςéxodos‘a departure’
- Englishearliest quotation 2003exodos
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδόςhodós‘path, road’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἔξοδοςéxodos‘a departure’
- Englishearliest quotation 2003exodos
Earliest quotation: 2003, Francis Blessington, The Bacchae; Euripides: The Frogs; Aristophanes: “Then scenes alternate with choral songs, till the final…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’
set, president, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, session, chair, resident, settle, assess, nest, siege, niche, possess, saddle, reside, subsidy, sedan, residue, residual, sediment, nye, insidious, sedentary, dissident, beset, prasad, soot, sedative, setter, obsess, sedate, chaise, presidio, sate, sessile, presidium, seance, 92 more
through Ancient Greek ὁδός ‘path, road’
method, cathode, anode, 12 more
through Ancient Greek ἔξοδος ‘a departure’
Today it means
noun A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὁδός / exodos