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exodus

/ˈeksədəs/EK-suh-duhs
/ˈɛksədəs/EK-suh-duhs

Meaninga way out

Common meaning: a mass departure

‘out’ + ‘a way, road’ → exodus

Journey through time

  1. Aryan root · reconstructed√SAD‘go, travel’No written record; from Skeat’s list of Aryan roots, no. 383, p. 743 · scan
  2. Greekὁδός‘a way, road’
  3. Latinexodus
  4. Englishexodus‘a mass departure’ · today

ex- also in: exitexactexaltexertexpel

od also in: methodperiodepisode

Sources & notes

Meaning: “Meaning” is the sense that emerges from the word’s roots; “Common meaning” is today’s everyday sense. Both written by us.

Pronunciation

  • UK IPA: converted from the US form by rule (unchecked). Respelling: generated.
  • No UK recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-GB voice.
  • US IPA: CMUdict (BSD-2), converted to IPA by rule. Respelling: generated.
  • No US recording; the speaker uses your device’s en-US voice.

Origin: Built on Greek ὁδός ‘a way, road; a journey’.

Did you know: our wording, based on Liddell & Scott, Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon (1889), entry ὁδός, p. 543 · dictionary scan

Roots

Related words

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