verbfirst conjugation
excitō
excitō (present infinitive excitāre, perfect active excitāvī, supine excitātum)
Classical[ˈɛks.kɪ.toː]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛks.t͡ʃi.to]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- transitiveto call forth: to rouse, awaken, summon
Quintus Curtius Rufus, Historiae Alexandri Magni, Book VI
A small spark neglected has often roused to a great inferno. - transitiveto bring forth: to raise, build
Respondit Jesus, et dixit eis: Solvite templum hoc, et in tribus diebus excitabo illud.
Jesus answered, and said to them, “Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it.” Then the Jews said, “This temple was built in 46 years, and you will raise it in three days?”c. 347 CE – 420 CE, Hieronymus, Vulgate John.2.19–20 - figurativelytransitiveto bring out: to encourage, revive, excite, stimulate, set in motion
- figurativelytransitiveto call upon: to cite
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
ē somnō trahō; dormientem excitāre.excitō -āre — in Mille Verba, ch. Līmes: ad Carnuntum
ē somnō suscitōexcitō -āre — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 6 and Evangelium secundum Marcum, ch. 7
Conjugation conjugation 1
| form | present | imperfect | future | perfect | pluperfect | fut. perfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | excitō | excitābam | excitābō | excitāvī | excitāveram excitāram | excitāverō excitārō |
| 2nd sg. | excitās | excitābās | excitābis | excitāvistī excitāstī | excitāverās excitārās | excitāveris excitāris |
| 3rd sg. | excitat | excitābat | excitābit | excitāvit excitāt | excitāverat excitārat | excitāverit excitārit |
| 1st pl. | excitāmus | excitābāmus | excitābimus | excitāvimus excitāmus | excitāverāmus excitārāmus | excitāverimus excitārimus |
| 2nd pl. | excitātis | excitābātis | excitābitis | excitāvistis excitāstis | excitāverātis excitārātis | excitāveritis excitāritis |
| 3rd pl. | excitant | excitābant | excitābunt | excitāvērunt excitārunt, excitāvēre | excitāverant excitārant | excitāverint excitārint |
active subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect | perfect | pluperfect |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | excitem | excitārem | excitāverim excitārim | excitāvissem excitāssem |
| 2nd sg. | excitēs | excitārēs | excitāverīs excitārīs | excitāvissēs excitāssēs |
| 3rd sg. | excitet | excitāret | excitāverit excitārit | excitāvisset excitāsset |
| 1st pl. | excitēmus | excitārēmus | excitāverīmus excitārīmus | excitāvissēmus excitāssēmus |
| 2nd pl. | excitētis | excitārētis | excitāverītis excitārītis | excitāvissētis excitāssētis |
| 3rd pl. | excitent | excitārent | excitāverint excitārint | excitāvissent excitāssent |
passive indicative
| form | present | imperfect | future |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | excitor | excitābar | excitābor |
| 2nd sg. | excitāris excitāre | excitābāris excitābāre | excitāberis excitābere |
| 3rd sg. | excitātur | excitābātur | excitābitur |
| 1st pl. | excitāmur | excitābāmur | excitābimur |
| 2nd pl. | excitāminī | excitābāminī | excitābiminī |
| 3rd pl. | excitantur | excitābantur | excitābuntur |
passive subjunctive
| form | present | imperfect |
|---|---|---|
| 1st sg. | exciter | excitārer |
| 2nd sg. | excitēris excitēre | excitārēris excitārēre |
| 3rd sg. | excitētur | excitārētur |
| 1st pl. | excitēmur | excitārēmur |
| 2nd pl. | excitēminī | excitārēminī |
| 3rd pl. | excitentur | excitārentur |
imperative
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| pres. 2nd sg. | excitā | excitāre |
| pres. 2nd pl. | excitāte | excitāminī |
| fut. 2nd sg. | excitātō | excitātor |
| fut. 3rd sg. | excitātō | excitātor |
| fut. 2nd pl. | excitātōte | — |
| fut. 3rd pl. | excitantō | excitantor |
infinitives & participles
| form | active | passive |
|---|---|---|
| present infinitive | excitāre | excitārī |
| perfect infinitive | excitāvisse excitāsse | excitātum esse |
| future infinitive | excitātūrum esse | excitātum īrī |
| present participle | excitāns | — |
| perfect participle | — | excitātus excitāta, excitātā, excitātae, excitātam, excitātārum, excitātās, excitātī, excitātōrum, excitātōs |
| future participle | excitātūrus excitātūra, excitātūrā, excitātūrae, excitātūram, excitātūrārum, excitātūrās, excitātūre, excitātūrī, excitātūrīs, excitātūrō, excitātūrōrum, excitātūrōs, excitātūrum | excitandus excitanda, excitandā, excitandae, excitandam, excitandārum, excitandās, excitande, excitandīs, excitandōrum, excitandōs |
gerundexcitandī, excitandō, excitandumsupineexcitātum, excitātū
Phrases from Meissner's Latin Phrase-Book
- libidinem alicuius excitare
- to arouse some one's lust.
- excitare aliquem ad virtutem
- to rouse in some one an enthusiasm for virtue.
- bellum facere, movere, excitare
- to cause a war.
- ignem excitare (pro Mur. 25. 51)
- to make up, stir up a fire.
- turrim excitare, erigere, facere
- to build a tower.
- ad spem aliquem excitare, erigere
- to awaken new hope in some one.
- clamores (coronae) facere, excitare
- to elicit loud applause.
- animum alicuius ad laetitiam excitare
- to put a man in a pleasurable frame of mind.
6 more phrases
- (e) somno excitare, dormientem excitare
- to rouse, wake some one.
- motus excitare in animo (opp. sedare, exstinguere)
- to excite emotion.
- suspicionem movere, excitare, inicere, dare alicui
- to rouse a person's suspicions.
- excitare animum iacentem et afflictum (opp. frangere animum)
- to inspire the spiritless and prostrate with new vigour.
- ad virtutem excitare, cohortari (or simply adhortari, cohortari)
- to incite to valour.
- aliquem ab inferis or a mortuis evocare, excitare (passive ab inferis exsistere)
- to summon some one from the dead.
excĭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a. excio,
I. to call out or forth, to bring or send out, to wake or rouse up (freq. and class.; cf.: provoco, evoco; irrito, lacesso, invito).
I. Lit.: unde (Acherunte) animae excitantur obscura umbra, Poëta ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37:
aliquem a portu, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 10: aliquem huc foras, id. Rud. 1, 5, 2: si excitatus fuerit de spectaculis, turned out, expelled, Quint. 3, 6, 19: dormientes spectatores e somno, to wake up, Plaut. Merc. 1, 2, 48; cf.: quaeso, ne me e somno excitetis, Cic. Rep. 6, 12: velut dormitantes eos excitari, Quint. 4, 1, 73: patre excitato (opp. dormiente), id. 4, 2, 72: scuto offenso excitatus vigil, Liv. 7, 36, 2: aliquem ab inferis, to summon up, Cic. Font. 12, 26; id. Cat. 2, 10, 20; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 49, 129: aliquem a mortuis, id. de Or. 1, 57, 245: non dubitavit excitare reum consularem, to call upon to stand up, to call up, id. ib. 2, 28, 124: reos, id. ib. 2, 47, 195; Quint. 11, 3, 174; cf. Liv. 9, 8, 3: testes, Cic. Rab. Post. 17, 47: judicem, Cels. ap. Quint. 9, 2, 104 et saep.: feras, to rouse or scare up, Cic. Off. 3, 17, 68: cervum nemorosis latibulis, Phaedr. 2, 8, 1.—Prov.: aliis leporem, Petr. 1, 31, 7.—B. Transf., of inanim. and abstr. things, to raise, erect:
vapores, qui a sole ex aquis excitantur, Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: caput altius, Cels. 8, 4 med.—2. In partic., with the accessory notion of making, forming, to raise, erect, build, construct:
exstrui vetat (Plato) sepulcrum altius, quam, etc. ... nec e lapide excitari amplius, Cic. Leg. 2, 27, 68: turres, Caes. B. G. 5, 40, 2; id. B. C. 1, 25 fin.: tumulum alicui, Suet. Claud. 1: aedificium, Sen. Ep. 52: urbem, Flor. 1, 1: nova sarmenta cultura excitantur, are produced, Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88: pascua in novalibus, Pall. Nov. 13, 3: ignem, to kindle up, excite, Caes. B. G. 7, 24, 4; Lucr. 6, 308: incendium, Cic. Phil. 7, 1, 3: invalidas flammas admoto fomite, Luc. 8, 776.—Poet. transf.: aras, Verg. G. 4, 549: foculum bucca, Juv. 3, 262: siser stomachum, Plin. 20, 5, 17, § 34: uvae os, stomachum, id. 23, 1, 7, § 12.II. Trop.
A. In gen., to raise up, comfort; to arouse, awaken, excite, incite, stimulate, enliven:
qui ab excitata fortuna ad inclinatam et prope jacentem desciscerem, erected, established, Cic. Fam. 2, 16, 1; cf.: amici jacentem animum excitare, id. Lael. 16, 59; and with this cf. id. Att. 1, 16, 8; and: animos excitare atque inflammare ad persequendi studium, id. de Imp. Pomp. 2, 5: animos omnium ad laetitiam, Caes. B. G. 7, 79, 3: aliquem ad laborem et ad laudem, Cic. Planc. 24, 59; cf. id. Top. 2, 5: languentem labentemque populum ad decus, id. de Or. 1, 46, 202: aliquem ad bellum, Caes. B. G. 3, 10, 3: aliquem ad virtutem, id. ib. 6, 14, 5: aliquem ad audiendum, Quint. 4, 1, 34: gallos alacritate ad canendum, Cic. Div. 2, 26, 56 et saep.: alicujus memoriam alicui excitans, reviving, renewing, Cic. Or. 10, 35: hominum studia ad utilitates nostras allicere atque excitare, id. Off. 2, 6, 20: hominum studia, Caes. B. C. 3, 21, 1: salsum excitat et a taedio defendit orationem, enlivens, Quint. 6, 3, 19: fictiones personarum mire orationem excitant, id. 9, 2, 29; cf. id. 6, 1, 2: hi soni cum augenda intentione excitandi (opp. temperandi), to sharpen, pronounce strongly, id. 11, 3, 42: syllabam acutam, id. 12, 10, 33. —B. In partic.
1. To appeal to, call upon, cite:
ut nos ex annalium monimentis testis excitamus eos, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 21, 67: multos testis liberalitatis tuae, id. Rab. Post. 17, 47.—2. With the accessory idea of producing (acc. to I. B. 2.), to found, cause, occasion, excite, kindle:
priusquam docuero, quibus initiis ac fundamentis hae tantae summis in rebus laudes excitatae sint, Cic. Sest. 2, 5; cf. id. Fin. 4, 7, 18: in animis hominum motum dicendo vel excitare vel sedare, id. de Or. 1, 46, 202: risus, id. Phil. 3, 9, 21: plausum, id. Sest. 58, 124: fletum etiam inimicis, id. ib. 57, 121: amores, id. Off. 1, 5, 14: iras, Verg. A. 2, 594: suspicionem alicui, Cic. Sest. 18, 41: varios sermones, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 2: quantas tragoedias, Cic. Mil. 7, 18: vim ac dolorem bonorum omnium, id. Planc. 18, 45 et saep. —Hence, excĭtātus, a, um, P. a. (lit. excited, kindled; hence), animated, lively, vigorous, vehement, strong, loud (rare but class.): acutus et excitatus sonus, Cic. Rep. 6, 18.—Comp.: clamor, Liv. 4, 37, 9: haec lumina, Quint. 12, 10, 49: schema, id. 9, 3, 10.—Sup.: odor, Plin. 20, 17, 71, § 182. —Adv.: excĭtāte, vigorously, briskly, brightly, vehemently.—In the comp.: fulgent gemmae, Plin. 37, 7, 31, § 106: clamitantes, Amm. 18, 8.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
excitō āvī, ātus, āre, freq.
excio, to call out, summon forth, bring out, wake, rouse : me e somno: sopitum mero regem, Cu.: scuto offenso excitatus vigil, L.: reum consularem, summon : testīs ab inferis: cervum latibulis, Ph.— To raise, stir up : (vapores) a sole ex aquis excitantur: ventus harenam humo excitavit, S.— To raise, erect, build, construct, produce, kindle : vetat sepulcrum e lapide excitari: aras, V.: nova sarmenta culturā excitantur, are produced : ignem, Cs.: sopitas ignibus aras (i. e. ignīs sopitos in aris), V.—Fig., to raise up, comfort, arouse, awaken, excite, incite, stimulate, enliven, inspire : iacentem animum: animos ad laetitiam: Gallos ad bellum, Cs.: studia ad utilitates nostras: sonus excitat omnis Suspensum, startles , V.: hoc maxime ad virtutem excitari putant, the strongest incentive to virtue , Cs.— To appeal to, call upon, cite : ex annalium monimentis testīs: multos testīs liberalitatis tuae.— To found, cause, occasion, excite, kindle : quantum mali ex eā re, T.: quibus fundamentis hae tantae laudes excitatae sint: risūs: iras, V.
Origins
The frequentative form of excieō (“to call out, arouse, excite”), from ex- (“out; forth”) + cieō (“to call, summon”).
Borrowings
- Catalanexcitar
- Englishexcite
- Frenchexciter
- Italianeccitare
- Portugueseexcitar
- Romanianexcita
- Spanishexcitar
- Esperantoeksciti
- Friulianecitâ
- Galicianexcitar
Insular Romance
- Campidaneseschidai
- Logudoreseischidare
- Nuoreseischitare
Italo-Romance
- Galluresesciutà
- Sassareseisceddà
- Sassareseisciddà
- Neapolitanscetare
- Sicilianscitare
Southern Gallo-Romance
- Old Occitanesedar
Elsewhere
- Vulgar Latin*dēexcitō