LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbthird (-iō variant) conjugation, deponent

ēgredior

ēgredior (present infinitive ēgredī, perfect active ēgressus sum)
Classical[eːˈɡrɛ.di.ɔr]Ecclesiastical[eˈɡrɛː.di.or]
№ 912 of the 1,000 commonest wordsMille Verba core vocabulary

Meaning

  1. deponentto go or come out or forth; march or step out
  2. deponentto disembark, land
  3. deponentto ascend, mount
  4. deponentfigurativelyto digress, deviate, wander
  5. deponenttransitiveto go beyond, pass out of or leave somewhere
  6. deponentfigurativelyto overstep, surpass, exceed, transgress
  7. deponentto leave, exit

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

exeō; ē nāvī ēgredimur.
ēgredior -ī ēgressus — in Mille Verba, ch. Via et Iter

Conjugation deponent

active indicative
formpresentimperfectfutureperfectpluperfectfut. perfect
1st sg.ēgrediorēgrediēbarēgrediar———
2nd sg.ēgrederis
ēgredere		ēgrediēbāris
ēgrediēbāre		ēgrediēris
ēgrediēre		———
3rd sg.ēgrediturēgrediēbāturēgrediētur———
1st pl.ēgredimurēgrediēbāmurēgrediēmur———
2nd pl.ēgrediminīēgrediēbāminīēgrediēminī———
3rd pl.ēgrediunturēgrediēbanturēgredientur———
active subjunctive
active subjunctive
formpresentimperfectperfectpluperfect
1st sg.ēgrediarēgrederer——
2nd sg.ēgrediāris
ēgrediāre		ēgrederēris
ēgrederēre		——
3rd sg.ēgrediāturēgrederētur
ēgredierētur		——
1st pl.ēgrediāmurēgrederēmur——
2nd pl.ēgrediāminīēgrederēminī——
3rd pl.ēgredianturēgrederentur——
imperative
imperative
formactivepassive
pres. 2nd sg.ēgredere—
pres. 2nd pl.ēgrediminī—
fut. 2nd sg.ēgreditor—
fut. 3rd sg.ēgreditor—
fut. 3rd pl.ēgrediuntor—
infinitives & participles
infinitives & participles
formactivepassive
present infinitiveēgredī—
perfect infinitiveēgressum esse—
future infinitiveēgressūrum esse—
present participleēgrediēns
ēgrediente, ēgredientem, ēgredientēs, ēgredientī, ēgredientia, ēgredientibus, ēgredientis, ēgredientīs, ēgredientium		—
perfect participleēgressus
ēgressa, ēgressā, ēgressae, ēgressam, ēgressārum, ēgressās, ēgresse, ēgressī, ēgressīs, ēgressō, ēgressōrum, ēgressōs		—
future participleēgressūrusēgrediendus
ēgrediundus
gerundēgrediendī, ēgrediendō, ēgrediendumsupineēgressum, ēgressū

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

extra portam egredi
to go outside the gate.
exire, egredi in terram
to land, disembark.
egredi loco; excedere ex loco
to leave a place.
decimum annum excessisse, egressum esse
to be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.
a proposito aberrare, declinare, deflectere, digredi, egredi
to digress from the point at issue.

ē-grĕdĭor, gressus, 3 (
I. inf. egredier, Plaut. Poen. 3, 4, 32), v. dep. n. and a.
I. Neutr., to go or come out, come forth (class.).
A. Lit.
1. In gen., with e or ex: foras e fano, Plaut. Rud. 2, 3, 4; cf.: e fano huc, id. ib. 3, 2, 49: e cubiculo, Cic. Rep. 1, 12: ex oppido, Caes. B. G. 2, 13, 2; 7, 11, 7: ex suis finibus, id. ib. 6, 31, 4: ex castris, id. ib. 6, 36, 2: e curia, Liv. 2, 48; 7, 31 et saep.—With a or ab: ab sese, Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 78; id. Epid. 3, 2, 44; Ter. And. 1, 3, 21; id. Ph. 5, 1, 5; Suet. Claud. 23; cf.: a nobis foras, Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 50. —With simple abl.: domo, Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 1: portă, Cic. Tusc. 1, 7; Caes. B. G. 7, 28, 3; Liv. 9, 16: Romă, Cic. Quint. 6, 24; Hor. S. 1, 5, 1; cf. Suet. Aug. 53; id. Tib. 40: tabernaculo, id. Aug. 91: triclinio, id. Calig. 36 et saep.; cf.: domo foras, Plaut. Merc. 4, 6, 5.—With adv.: hinc, Plaut. Men. 2, 2, 74: intus, id. Pers. 2, 4, 30: unde, Caes. B. G. 5, 37, 4 et saep.—Absol.: placide egredere, Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 1; so id. Cas. 3, 2, 6; id. Mil. 2, 6, 59; id. Poen. 3, 2, 36 sq. et saep.: foras, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 27; id. Curc. 4, 1, 5; id. Cas. 2, 1, 15; id. Mil. 4, 1, 40; 4, 5, 16 et saep.: obviam, Liv. 9, 16: per medias hostium stationes, id. 5, 46; cf. poet.: per Veneris res, Lucr. 2, 437: extra munitiones, Caes. B. G. 6, 35, 9; 6, 36, 1; id. B. C. 3, 65, 4: extra fines, terminos, cancellos, Cic. Quint. 10, 35 sq.: extra portam, Liv. 3, 68; cf.: ad portam, i. e. out to the gate. id. 33, 47 fin.: in vadum, id. 8, 24 et saep.—
b. In an upward direction, to go up, climb, mount, ascend: scalis egressi, Sall. J. 60, 6 Kritz.; cf.: ad summum montis, id. ib. 93, 2: in tumulum, Liv. 26, 44: in altitudinem, id. 40, 22: in vallum, Tac. H. 3, 29: in tectum, id. ib. 3, 71: in moenia, id. ib. 4, 29: in sublime (liquor), Plin. 2, 42, 42, § 111: altius, Ov. M. 2, 136.—
2. In partic.
a. Milit. t. t.
(a). To step out, leave: ne quispiam ordine egrederetur, Sall. J. 45, 2.—
(b). To move out, march out: e castris, Caes. B. G. 7, 36, 7; 7, 58, 2 al.: castris, id. ib. 2, 11, 1; Sall. J. 91, 3.—Absol., Caes. B. C. 3, 77, 1; Sall. J. 91, 2; 106, 4; cf. also: in pacata, Liv. 10, 32: ad proelium, Caes. B. C. 2, 35, 5: ad oppugnandum, Sall. J. 59, 1.—
b. Naut. t. t.
(a). (Ex) navi or absol., to disembark from a vessel, to land: ex navi, Cic. Vatin. 5, 12; Caes. B. G. 4, 26, 2; id. B. C. 3, 106, 4: navi, id. B. G. 4, 21, 9; Liv. 45, 13; cf. ratibus, Ov. M. 8, 153; and absol., Caes. B. G. 4, 23, 4; Liv. 1, 1; Ov. H. 21, 91; cf.: in terram, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 51; Front. Strat. 2, 5, 44: in litus, id. ib. 1, 5, 7.—
(b). E portu, or absol., to set sail, Cic. Att. 6, 8, 4; Quint. 10, 7, 23; Ov. Tr. 1, 10, 6.—
B. Trop. in speaking, to digress, depart, deviate, wander (rarely): a proposito ornandi causa, Cic. Brut. 21, 82; cf.: ex quibus, Quint. 3, 9, 4.—Absol., Quint. 4, 3, 15: extra praescriptum, id. 1, 1, 27.
II. Act., to go beyond, to pass out of, to leave (freq. in the historians, partic. since the Aug. per.; not ante-class., nor in Cic.).
A. Lit.: fines, Caes. B. G. 1, 44, 7: munitiones nostras, id. B. C. 3, 52 fin.: flumen Mulucham, Sall. J. 110 fin.: urbem, Liv. 1, 29 fin.; 3, 57 fin.; 22, 55 fin. al.: tecta, Plin. Ep. 6, 20, 8: tentoria, Tac. A. 1, 30; Luc. 5, 510 et saep.: navem, Front. Strat. 1, 12, 1 Oud. N. cr.: portum (navis), Quint. 4, 1, 61. —
B. Trop., to overstep, surpass, exceed: per omnia fortunam hominis egressus, Vell. 2, 40, 2; so, vetus familia neque tamen praeturam egressa, yet had attained no higher honor than, Tac. A. 3, 30: quintum annum, Quint. 6 prooem. § 6: modum, id. 8, 6, 16; 9, 4, 146; Tac. A. 13, 2: sexum, id. ib. 16, 10 fin.: clementiam majorum suasque leges, id. ib. 3, 24: relationem, id. ib. 2, 38: medios metus, Val. Fl. 2, 277 et saep.: tecta altitudinem moenium egressa, Tac. H. 3, 30 fin.

Origins

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰ
  2. Proto-Indo-European*h₁éǵʰs
  3. Proto-Italic*eks
  4. Latinēgredior

Latin ex- Proto-Indo-European *gʰredʰ-der. Latin gradior Latin ēgredior From ex- (“out of”) + gradior (“to step”).

Descendants
  • Englishegress
  • Italianegresso
  • Spanishegresar

In English words that came into English from ēgredior

  • egressēgressus
  • egressionēgressiō

Quick answers

What does ēgredior mean in Latin?
ēgredior, a verb, means “to go or come out or forth; march or step out; to disembark, land”.
What are the principal parts of ēgredior?
ēgredior, ēgredī (third (-iō variant) conjugation, deponent).
How do you pronounce ēgredior?
In classical Latin, [eːˈɡrɛ.di.ɔr]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [eˈɡrɛː.di.or].
Where does ēgredior come from?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ → Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs → Proto-Italic *eks → Latin ēgredior.