exta
Meaning
- neuterpluralthe bowels or entrails of animals, especially the heart, lungs, and liver
ecce, nefās vīsū, mediīs altāribus anguis
Behold, a dreadful sight! A snake emerges from amid the altars and seizes the entrails from the extinguished flames.8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 2.711–712
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
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Caro · Pulpa · Viscera · Exta · Intestina · Ilia
1. Caro means flesh in its general sense, as a material substance, in opp. to fat, nerves, muscles, and so forth; pulpa, especially, eatable and savory flesh, in opp. to bones; viscera, all flesh, and every fleshy substance between the skin and the bones. 2. Viscera, in a narrower sense, means generally, the inner parts of the body; whereas exta means the inner parts of the upper part of the body, as the heart, lungs, and so forth; intestina, interanea, and ilia, the inner parts of the lower part of the body, namely, the entrails; and indeed intestina, and, in the age after Augustus, interanea, meant the guts as digestive organs; ilia, all that is contained in the lower part of the body, and particularly those parts that are serviceable. (v. 145.)
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | — | exta |
| genitive | — | extōrum extum |
| dative | — | extīs |
| accusative | — | exta |
| ablative | — | extīs |
| vocative | — | exta |
alios enim alio more videmus exta interpretari, Cic. Div. 2, 12, 28 (v. the whole passage): exta homini ab inferiore viscerum parte separantur membrana, Plin. 11, 37, 77, § 197; 28, 5, 14, § 56: EXTA PORRICIUNTO, dies danto in altaria aramve focumve eove, quo exta dari debebunt, Veran. ap. Macr. S. 3, 2; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 29 fin.: dare, Liv. 26, 23, 8; cf.: dare Jovi, Mart. 11, 57, 4; for which: reddere Marti, Verg. G. 2, 194: per exta inventa praesensio, Cic. Top. 20, 77 al.: exta consuluit, Vulg. Ezech. 21, 21: abducunt me ad exta, to the sacrificial meal, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 117.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Origins
Quasi-haplology of exsecta, neuter plural of exsectus, perfect passive participle of exsecō (“to cut out”).