LATIN DICTIONARYLexicon Latīnum
noun · neutersecond declension

exta

exta n pl (genitive extōrum)
Classical[ˈɛk.sta]Ecclesiastical[ˈɛk.sta]

Meaning

  1. neuterpluralthe bowels or entrails of animals, especially the heart, lungs, and liver
    ecce, nefās vīsū, mediīs altāribus anguisBehold, 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

interiōra victimae
exta -ōrum (n) — in Epistulae, ch. 13

Choosing the right word Döderlein's Latin Synonyms

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

declension
formsingularplural
nominative—exta
genitive—extōrum
extum
dative—extīs
accusative—exta
ablative—extīs
vocative—exta

exta, ōrum (
I. gen. plur. extūm, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155.—Also EXTAE, ārum, Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. Tab. 41, 19; Tab. 42, 12; Tab. 43, 22), n. sup. form for ecista (exista); cf.: exterus, extra; prop., the most prominent of the internal organs, hence, the nobler internal organs of the body, the inwards, as the heart, lungs, liver, the organs from the appearance of which in the victim the haruspices drew their prognostications (but viscera, the entrails, in gen. includes also the stomach, intestines, etc.): 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.

Origins

Quasi-haplology of exsecta, neuter plural of exsectus, perfect passive participle of exsecō (“to cut out”).

Quick answers

What does exta mean in Latin?
exta, a noun, means “the bowels or entrails of animals, especially the heart, lungs, and liver”.
What is the genitive of exta?
The genitive singular is extōrum. exta is neuter, second declension.
How do you pronounce exta?
In classical Latin, [ˈɛk.sta]; in ecclesiastical (church) Latin, [ˈɛk.sta].