English
exiter
Exiter comes from Latin exitus, from exeō ‘to exit, depart, go forth, come forth’, and ultimately from eō.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeō1
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexeō1‘to exit, depart, go forth, come forth’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexitus1
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500exit1
- English1500–presentexit1
- Englishearliest quotation 1999exiter1
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, English exiter
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1999, Alfonso Gambardella, Franco Malerba: “High lateral entry is associated with low gross entry…”.
Earlier history not traced here. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEeōWiktionary, English exiter
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexeōWiktionary, English exiter‘to exit, depart, go forth, come forth’
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEexitusWiktionary, English exiter
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500exitWiktionary, English exiter
- English1500–presentexitWiktionary, English exiter
- Englishearliest quotation 1999exiterWiktionary, English exiter. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1999, Alfonso Gambardella, Franco Malerba: “High lateral entry is associated with low gross entry…”
A compound of exit + -er
Latin eō ‘to go’
Latin exeō ‘to depart, exit’
Latin exitus ‘departure, going out’
Middle English exit
English exit
Linked words
through Latin eō
initial, transition, ambitious, ambition, ambient, trance, transient, obituary, eyre, sedition, ambiance, transitive, transitory, seditious, praetorian, praetor, ambit, obit, 23 more
through Latin exeō ‘to exit, depart, go forth, come forth’
Today it means
noun One who exits.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “exiter”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / Latin eō / exiter