extorris

Latin

Etymology

By surface analysis, ex- (out of) +‎ terra (land) +‎ -is. De Vaan derives it from a proto-form *eks-t(o)rs-i-s with Indo-European ablaut (compare torreō from the same root).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

extorris (neuter extorre); third-declension two-termination adjective

  1. driven out of one's country, exiled, banished [with ablative ‘from, out of somewhere’]
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.615–618:
      bellō audācis populī uexātus et armīs,
      fīnibus extorris, complexū āuulsus Iūlī
      auxilium implōret uideatque indigna suōrum
      fūnera; []
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    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 9.34:
      Haec est eadem familia, Quirites, cuius ui atque iniuriis compulsi, extorres patria Sacrum montem cepistis; []
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    • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 26.41:
      animus quoque meus, maximus mihi ad hoc tempus uates, praesagit nostram Hispaniam esse, breui extorre hinc omne Punicum nomen maria terrasque foeda fuga impleturum
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Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative extorris extorre extorrēs extorria
genitive extorris extorrium
dative extorrī extorribus
accusative extorrem extorre extorrīs
extorrēs
extorria
ablative extorrī extorribus
vocative extorris extorre extorrēs extorria

See also

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “terra”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 616

Further reading

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