English
exodus
Exodus comes from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος ‘expedition, procession, departure’, and goes back to ὁδός ‘journey’.
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδόςhodós‘journey’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἔξοδοςéxodos‘expedition, procession, departure’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexodus
- Englishearliest quotation 1839exodus
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Ancient Greekc. 800–300 BCEὁδόςhodós‘journey’
- Ancient Greek, derivedc. 800–300 BCEἔξοδοςéxodos‘expedition, procession, departure’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexodus
- Englishearliest quotation 1839exodus
Earliest quotation: 1839, John Delafield Jr., An Inquiry into the Origin of the Antiquities of America: “There were no less than three exodi from Egypt.…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *sed- ‘to sit’
set, president, size, sell, sit, sitting, seat, session, chair, resident, settle, assess, nest, possess, siege, niche, saddle, reside, subsidy, sedan, sediment, nye, residual, residue, sedentary, dissident, beset, insidious, prasad, soot, sedative, setter, obsess, sedate, chaise, presidio, sate, sessile, presidium, seance, 93 more
through Ancient Greek ὁδός ‘journey’
Today it means
noun A sudden departure of a large number of people.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ancient Greek ὁδός / exodus