Talk:exit

Etymology
Webster says this word comes from exire, not exitus, please cite some good sources. Also if you look at the inflection chart for exeo, you can see exit is the Indicative Singular Active Present Third inflection (that is one insanely large inflection chart), may just be a coincidence, but it deserves looking into.Scotty Zebulon 02:40, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I confess to using Meinecke: Third Year Latin 1960 as my primary reference. According to this erudite source, exitus and exire are themselves derivatives of exeo, with virtually identical meanings. So does it make any difference, or is this simply a case where either/or will do? -- Pinkfud 02:53, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The form exire isn't a *derivative* of exeo; it's merely one form of that word. Just as flowers is a form of flower or as walked is a form of walk.  It's the same word (lexeme), but in a different inflectional form. --EncycloPetey 03:00, 3 December 2008 (UTC)


 * The word exitus: is the participle of exeo: (which exire: is the present active infinitive of). Webster often skips the participle in giving etymologies, and uses the second principal part (present active infinitive) when listing Latin verbs instead of the first principal part (first-person singular present active indicative), which is the header form we use and which Latin dictionaries use.  The OED says there are two origins (1) exitus as we currently have it, and (2) the 3rd-person singular present active indicative exit ("he leaves") which you have noted. --EncycloPetey 02:57, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

I don't quite like this.
Shouldn't we rather split the meanings for "exit" as a general "way out" and the highway/motorway exit? It will at least be more easy for learners, because they won't have to pick out the translations and check them back to get the right meaning in the foreign language. -andy 77.190.18.253 23:16, 8 May 2012 (UTC)


 * ✅ They seem to have been split. We could even split it further (e.g. the figurative departure from a financial market is an "exit") but there are diminishing returns. Equinox ◑ 22:17, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Stage directions?
The second form of the verb is shown without its forms, and seems to be an interjection doesn't it?--The cool numel (talk) 15:51, 5 October 2021 (UTC)