exquisitus

== Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of exquīrō (“seek out”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛk.skʷiːˈsiː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ek.skʷiˈs̬iː.tus] === Participle === exquīsītus (feminine exquīsīta, neuter exquīsītum, superlative exquīsītissimus); first/second-declension participle sought out, searched for, hunted up, ascertained, having been sought out inquired into, having been inquired into ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== → English: exquisite → French: exquis → Italian: squisito → Portuguese: esquisito → Spanish: exquisito === References === “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “exquisitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "exquisitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “exquisitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.