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exodos

exodos noun: a final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.

Noun

exodos (plural exodoi)

  1. (Ancient-Greek) A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.
    • The exodos requires three actors, one for the Athenian (thirty iambic trimeters), one for his companion (five iambic trimeters) and one for the Spartan Singer (three iambic trimeters and around forty lyrical lines).1994, Carlo Ferdinando Russo (author and translator), Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage, [1962, Aristofane autore di teatro], page 173
    • Then scenes alternate with choral songs, till the final exodos ("going-out") of the actors and chorus.2003, Francis Blessington, The Bacchae; Euripides: The Frogs; Aristophanes, page xix

Forms of exodos

pluralexodoi

Origin of exodos

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, “a departure”). Doublet of exodus.

Questions about exodos

What does exodos mean?
Exodos means a final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.
What part of speech is exodos?
Exodos is a noun.
What is the plural of exodos?
The plural of exodos is exodoi.

Words near exodos in the dictionary

  1. exodontias
  2. exodontic
  3. exodontics
  4. exodontist
  5. exodontists
  6. exodos
  7. exodrift
  8. exodrifts
  9. exodus
  10. exodused
  11. exoduses

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