exceptus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect passive participle of excipiō (“remove; except”).

Participle

exceptus (feminine excepta, neuter exceptum); first/second-declension participle

  1. taken out, having been taken out; excepted, having been excepted
  2. rescued, having been rescued
  3. received, having been received, captured, having been captured

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Descendants

  • → Middle French: excepter
  • → Italian: eccetto
  • → Portuguese: exceto
  • → Spanish: excepto

References

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