exempt
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle French exempt, from Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]exempt (not comparable)
- Free from a duty or obligation.
- In their country all women are exempt from military service.
- His income is so small that it is exempt from tax.
- 1679, [John] Dryden, [Nathaniel] Lee, Oedipus: A Tragedy. […], London: […] R. Bentley and M. Magnes […], →OCLC, Act I, page 15:
- Hear then this dreadful imprecation; hear it: / 'Tis lay'd on all; not any one exempt: […]
- (of an employee or his position) Not entitled to overtime pay when working overtime.
- (obsolete) Cut off; set apart.
- 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:
- corrupted, and exempt from ancient gentry
- (obsolete) Extraordinary; exceptional.
- 1614–1615, Homer, “The Sixth Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
- Dymas daughter, from comparison / Exempt in business naval
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]free from duty or obligation
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not entitled to overtime pay
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Noun
[edit]exempt (plural exempts)
- One who has been released from something.
- (historical) A type of French police officer.
- 1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, “Cartouche”, in The Paris Sketch Book:
- with this he slipped through the exempts quite unsuspected, and bade adieu to the Lazarists and his honest father […].
- (UK) One of four officers of the Yeomen of the Royal Guard, having the rank of corporal; an exon.
Translations
[edit]one who has been released from something
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Verb
[edit]exempt (third-person singular simple present exempts, present participle exempting, simple past and past participle exempted)
- (transitive) To grant (someone) freedom or immunity from.
- Citizens over 45 years of age were exempted from military service.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to grant freedom or immunity from
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Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin exēmptus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]exempt (feminine exempta, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)
- exempt
- (architecture) freestanding
- columnes exemptes ― freestanding columns
- (art) in the round
- una escultura exempta ― a sculpture in the round
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “exempt” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]exempt (feminine exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)
- exempt
- un système exempt de défectuosités
- A system free of defects.
Noun
[edit]exempt m (plural exempts)
- exempt, (type of) policeman
- 1844, Alexandre Dumas, Les Trois Mousquetaires, section XIII:
- « Suivez-moi, dit un exempt qui venait à la suite des gardes.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Further reading
[edit]- “exempt”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin exemptus, past participle of eximō.
Adjective
[edit]exempt m (feminine singular exempte, masculine plural exempts, feminine plural exemptes)
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French exempt or Latin exemptus.
Adjective
[edit]exempt m or n (feminine singular exemptă, masculine plural exempți, feminine and neuter plural exempte)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | exempt | exemptă | exempți | exempte | |||
| definite | exemptul | exempta | exempții | exemptele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | exempt | exempte | exempți | exempte | |||
| definite | exemptului | exemptei | exempților | exemptelor | ||||
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