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.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	exceptus	excepta	exceptum		exceptī	exceptae	excepta
genitive	exceptī	exceptae	exceptī		exceptōrum	exceptārum	exceptōrum
dative	exceptō	exceptae	exceptō		exceptīs
accusative	exceptum	exceptam	exceptum		exceptōs	exceptās	excepta
ablative	exceptō	exceptā	exceptō		exceptīs
vocative	excepte	excepta	exceptum		exceptī	exceptae	excepta

Descendants

• → Middle French: excepter
  • French: excepté
  • → English: except
• → 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.