LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
verbthird conjugation

excēdō

excēdō (present infinitive excēdere, perfect active excessī, supine excessum)
Classical[ɛksˈkeː.doː]Ecclesiastical[eksˈt͡ʃɛː.do]

Meaning

  1. intransitiveto go out, go forth or away; depart, retire, withdraw; disappear
  2. intransitiveto overstep, overtop, overpass, rise above, go beyond; advance, proceed; transgress, digress
  3. intransitiveto depart from life; decease, die
  4. transitiveto depart from, leave
  5. transitiveto go beyond, surpass, exceed; tower above, overtop

Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers

Conjugation conjugation 3

active indicative
formpresentimperfectfutureperfectpluperfectfut. perfect
1st sg.excēdōexcēdēbamexcēdamexcessīexcesseramexcesserō
2nd sg.excēdisexcēdēbāsexcēdēsexcessistīexcesserāsexcesseris
3rd sg.excēditexcēdēbatexcēdetexcessitexcesseratexcesserit
1st pl.excēdimusexcēdēbāmusexcēdēmusexcessimusexcesserāmusexcesserimus
2nd pl.excēditisexcēdēbātisexcēdētisexcessistisexcesserātisexcesseritis
3rd pl.excēduntexcēdēbantexcēdentexcessērunt
excessēre
excesserantexcesserint
active subjunctive
active subjunctive
formpresentimperfectperfectpluperfect
1st sg.excēdamexcēderemexcesserimexcessissem
2nd sg.excēdāsexcēderēsexcesserīsexcessissēs
3rd sg.excēdatexcēderetexcesseritexcessisset
1st pl.excēdāmusexcēderēmusexcesserīmusexcessissēmus
2nd pl.excēdātisexcēderētisexcesserītisexcessissētis
3rd pl.excēdantexcēderentexcesserintexcessissent
passive indicative
passive indicative
formpresentimperfectfuture
1st sg.excēdorexcēdēbarexcēdar
2nd sg.excēderis
excēdere
excēdēbāris
excēdēbāre
excēdēris
excēdēre
3rd sg.excēditurexcēdēbāturexcēdētur
1st pl.excēdimurexcēdēbāmurexcēdēmur
2nd pl.excēdiminīexcēdēbāminīexcēdēminī
3rd pl.excēdunturexcēdēbanturexcēdentur
passive subjunctive
passive subjunctive
formpresentimperfect
1st sg.excēdarexcēderer
2nd sg.excēdāris
excēdāre
excēderēris
excēderēre
3rd sg.excēdāturexcēderētur
1st pl.excēdāmurexcēderēmur
2nd pl.excēdāminīexcēderēminī
3rd pl.excēdanturexcēderentur
imperative
imperative
formactivepassive
pres. 2nd sg.excēdeexcēdere
pres. 2nd pl.excēditeexcēdiminī
fut. 2nd sg.excēditōexcēditor
fut. 3rd sg.excēditōexcēditor
fut. 2nd pl.excēditōte—
fut. 3rd pl.excēduntōexcēduntor
infinitives & participles
infinitives & participles
formactivepassive
present infinitiveexcēdereexcēdī
perfect infinitiveexcessisseexcessum esse
future infinitiveexcessūrum esseexcessum īrī
present participleexcēdēns—
perfect participle—excessus
future participleexcessūrus
excessūra, excessūrā, excessūrae, excessūram, excessūrārum, excessūrās, excessūre, excessūrī, excessūrīs, excessūrō, excessūrōrum, excessūrōs, excessūrum
excēdendus
excēdundus, excēdenda, excēdendā, excēdendae, excēdendam, excēdendārum, excēdendās, excēdende, excēdendīs, excēdendōrum, excēdendōs
gerundexcēdendī, excēdendō, excēdendumsupineexcessum, excessū

Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book

loco excedere
to abandon one's position.
ex pueris excedere
to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man.
(ex) finibus excedere
to evacuate territory.
egredi loco; excedere ex loco
to leave a place.
(ex) vita excedere, ex vita abire
to depart this life.
decimum annum excessisse, egressum esse
to be more than ten years old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.

ex-cēdo, cessi, cessum, 3 (
I. subj. perf. sync. excessis, Ter. And. 4, 4, 21), v. n. and a.
I. Neut., to go out, go forth or away, to depart, retire, withdraw (freq. and class.; cf.: discedo, deficio, destituo, desero, linquo, relinquo).
A. Lit.
1. In gen., with ex and abl., with abl. alone, or absol.: ex istoc loco, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 18: e medio, Ter. Hec. 4, 3, 14: ex civitate, Caes. B. G. 6, 8, 8: ex Italia, Cic. Phil. 12, 6, 14: e templo, Liv. 29, 19; for which, templo, id. 39, 5: ex finibus, Caes. B. G. 7, 33, 2; for which, finibus, id. ib. 4, 18 fin.; 7, 77, 14; Liv. 30, 42; 41, 19 al.: ex illa circumscriptione, Cic. Phil. 8, 8: ex itinere, Caes. B. C. 1, 79 fin.; cf.: ex via, id. B. G. 5, 19, 1; for which, viā, Liv. 24, 20: ex pugna, ex proelio, Caes. B. G. 3, 4, 3; 4, 33, 2; for which, more freq., pugnā, id. B. G. 5, 36, 3; id. B. C. 2, 7, 1; Liv. 44, 42; Verg. A. 9, 789 al.; and, proelio, Caes. B. G. 2, 25, 1; 3, 4, 3; 4, 12 fin.; 7, 80, 3; cf. acio, id. B. C. 2, 41, 7; 3, 94, 5; Liv. 31, 17: loco, Caes. B. C. 1, 44, 2; 3, 45, 4; Liv. 36, 10, 15; so, locis, id. 38, 27, 9; 27, 1, 5; and bello, Sall. C. 9, 4: domo, Caes. B. G. 4, 14 fin.: oppido, id. ib. 7, 78, 1; cf. urbe, Liv. 26, 24; 30, 7; 31, 17 et saep.: Arimino, Caes. B. C. 1, 10, 3; 1, 11, 1: Galliā, id. B. G. 7, 66, 4: provinciis, id. B. C. 1, 85 fin.: patriā, Verg. A. 1, 357: sceleratā terrā, id. ib. 3, 60 et saep.—With de (very rare): de utero matris, i. e. to be born, Dig. 1, 5, 15.—Absol.: abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit, Cic. Cat. 2, 1: excedere deos, simul ingens motus excedentium, Tac. H. 5, 13: primi omnium Macedones metu excesserant, Liv. 42, 67 fin.—Designating the terminus: cave quoquam ex istoc excessis loco, Ter. And. 4, 4, 21: agro hostium in Boeotiam, Liv. 31, 26 fin.: ex his tenebris in lucem illam, Cic. Tusc. 1, 30 fin.; cf.: ad deos, Vell. 1. 2: invictum fore donec excederet ad deos, Curt. 4, 7, § 27: in exsilium, Dig. 48, 19, 4; in which sense also simply excedere, ib. 48, 22, 7, § 17.—
2. In partic.
a. To go beyond, overstep, rise above, overtop a certain boundary.—Of personal subjects very rarely: alter in Pontum, alter usque Aegyptum excessit, Just. 1, 1, 6.—More freq. of inanimate subjects: ut nulla (pars) excederet extra, Cic. Univ. 5; Cels. 8, 9 fin.; cf. with eminere, id. 8, 25 fin.: montes et excedentia in nubes juga, Plin. 27, 1, 1, § 3.—
b. To depart from life, to decease, to die (cf. decedo): sic ille cum undequadraginta annos regnavisset, excessit e vita, Cic. Rep. 2, 14 fin.; so, e vita, id. Fin. 3, 18, 60; id. Brut. 20 fin.; id. Lael. 3 fin.; id. Off. 1, 43, 153: vitā, id. Tusc. 1, 13, 29; id. Brut. 75, 262; id. N. D. 3, 16, 41; Val. Max. 2, 6, 8; 5, 5, 3; Curt. 3, 1, 21; 9, 6, 6; Tac. H. 4, 75: e medio, Ter. Phorm. 5, 7, 74 Ruhnk.; and simply excedere (postAug.; but v. decedo excessus, I.), Plin. 7, 13, 11, § 58; Tac. A. 1, 5 fin.; 1, 33; Suet. Aug. 5; id. Claud. 45; id. Vesp. 2; id. Tit. 11; Val. Fl. 1, 826; Curt. 10, 5, 2; Sen. Ep. 77, 10.—
B. Trop.
1. In gen. (very rarely): cum animus Eudemi e corpore excesserit, Cic. Div. 1, 25, 53; id. Tusc. 1, 11, 24; 1, 32, 78; id. Lael. 4, 13 al.: corpore excedere, id. Div. 1, 30, 63: ex pristina bellandi consuetudine, Auct. B. Afr. 73: palmā, to recede from victory, to yield the victory (= decedere alicui de victoria), Verg. A. 5, 380.—Far more freq.,
2. In partic.
a. (Acc. to A. 2. a.) To go beyond a certain boundary or a certain measure, to advance, proceed, to transgress, digress (= procedere, progredi): mihi aetas ex magisterio tuo: Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 40: is postquam excessit ex ephebis, Ter. And. 1, 1, 24 (quoted in Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 327); cf.: ut primum ex pueris excessit Archias, Cic. Arch. 3: ad patres etiam et ad publicam querimoniam excessit res, Liv. 25, 1; cf. Val. Max. 5, 6, 4: haec eo anno in Africa gesta. Insequentia excedunt in eum annum, quo, etc., Liv. 30, 26; cf. id. 21, 15: paululum ad enarrandum, etc., to digress, Liv. 29, 29, 5; cf.: in fabellam, Sen. Ep. 77: in aliquid, Plin. Ep. 5, 6, 44 fin.: res parva dictu, sed quae studiis in magnum certamen excesserit, Liv. 34, 1; cf. id. 33, 35 fin.; 8, 33; cf. id. 3, 41: eo laudis excedere, quo, etc., to attain that height of fame, Tac. Agr. 42 fin.: tantum illa clades novitate et magnitudine excessit, i. e. exceeded, went beyond = eminuit, Tac. A. 2, 24.—
b. (Acc. to A. 2. b.) To depart, disappear: cura ex corde excessit, Ter. Hec. 3, 2, 12: cum cupiditatum dominatus excessit, Cic. Par. 5, 3, 40: jam e memoria excessit, quo tempore? etc., Liv. 26, 13; for which, memoriā, id. 7, 32 fin.: ubi reverentia excessit animis, Curt. 8, 8.— Poet.: Cannaene tibi graviorque palude Maeonius Stygia lacus excessere Padusque? i. e. have they slipped from your memory? Sil. 15, 35.
II. Act. (post-Aug.).
A. Lit., to depart from, to leave a place: urbem, Liv. 2, 37, 8; 1, 29, 6; 3, 57, 10; 23, 1: curiam, id. 45, 20; cf. pass. impers.: Crotonem excessum est, id. 24; 3 fin.—
B. Transf., to go beyond, surpass, exceed a certain limit, to overtop, tower above (cf. above, I. A. 2. a., and B. 2. a.): nubes excedit Olympus, Luc. 2, 271: statura, quae justam excederet, Suet. Tib. 68: summam octoginta milium, Liv. 39, 5; so of numbers, very freq., Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 22; 13, 3, 4, § 20; Quint. 9, 4, 79; Tac. A. 1, 14; Suet. Aug. 77 al.; cf. also of age, Col. 6, 21: triennium vitae, Plin. 8, 42, 67, § 166: annum aetatis centesimum, id. 25, 2, 5, § 9; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 4; 3, 7, 9; Suet. Gramm. 7; of measure: laborum periculorumque modum, Vell. 2, 122 fin.; so, modum, Liv. 26, 19; 28, 25; Quint. 3, 6, 62; 8, 3, 48 al.: eloquentia aut aequavit praestantissimorum gloriam aut excessit, Suet. Caes. 55; cf.: praeturae gradum, id. Oth. 1: principum fastigium, id. Calig. 22: fastigium equestre, Tac. A. 4, 40: excedente humanam fidem temeritate, Vell. 2, 51, 3; so, fidem, Plin. 7, 21, 21, § 85; Ov. M. 7, 166: excessisse Priscum inmanitate et saevitia crimina, quibus, etc., Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 2: nemine tantum ceteros excedente, ut ei aliquis se summitteret, Just. 13, 2.—With simple acc.: decretum, ne vasa auro solida ministrandis cibis fierent, etc. ... Excessit Fronto ac postulavit modum argento, went beyond the proposal, Tac. A. 2, 33 (cf.: egredi relationem, id. ib. 2, 38).—Pass.: duo enim multitudo, unione jam excessā, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 5.

Origins

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

Latin ex- Latin cēdō Latin excēdō From ex- (“out of, from”) + cēdō (“withdraw; yield”).

Descendants
  • Catalanexcedir
  • Englishexceed
  • Frenchexcéder
  • Italianeccedere
  • Portugueseexceder
  • Romanianexceda
  • Spanishexceder
  • Galicianexceder

Quick answers

What does excēdō mean in Latin?
excēdō, a verb, means “to go out, go forth or away; depart, retire, withdraw; disappear”.
What are the principal parts of excēdō?
excēdō, excēdere, excessī, excessum (third conjugation).
How do you pronounce excēdō?
In classical Latin, [ɛksˈkeː.doː]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [eksˈt͡ʃɛː.do].
Where does excēdō come from?
Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ → Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs → Proto-Italic *eks → Latin excēdō.