Learned borrowing from Latin exitus. Doublet of ejido and exit.

exitus (countable and uncountable, plural exituses)

1. (medicine) death

   Synonyms: exitus letalis, fatality

   • 1944 November, John G. Sinclair, N. D. Schofield, “Anomalies of the cardio-pulmonary circuit compensated without a ductus arteriosus”, in The Anatomical Record, volume 90, number 3, →DOI, page 209:

     She was brought to the Emergency Room moribund and went on to exitus soon after.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.sɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɛk.si.tus]

From exeō (“go out”) +‎ -tus (action noun forming suffix).

exitus m (genitive exitūs); fourth declension

1. a departure, a going out

   Synonyms: exitium, abitus, ēgressiō

   Antonym: adventus

2. an egress, a passage by which one may depart, exit, way out
3. (figuratively) a conclusion, termination, outcome

   Antonym: inceptus

   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita Praefatio:

     […]; inde tibi tuaeque rei publicae quod [e documentis] imitere capias, inde foedum inceptu foedum exitu quod vites.

     From these that would honor yourself and the state you may select, others avoid that be base in their inception, shameful in their outcome.

4. (figuratively) death

   Synonyms: mors, fūnus, fātum, interitus, perniciēs, somnus, fīnis, sopor

5. (figuratively) result, event, issue

   Synonyms: successus, effectus, frūx, frūctus, ēventus, prōventus

6. revenue, income

   Synonym: mercēs

Fourth-declension noun.

Perfect passive participle of exeō.

exitus (feminine exita, neuter exitum); first/second-declension participle

1. gone, left, having gone out.

First/second-declension adjective.

• “exitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "exitus", 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)
• “exitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) such was the end of... (used of a violent death): talem vitae exitum (not finem) habuit (Nep. Eum. 13)
    
  • (ambiguous) to finish, complete, fulfil, accomplish a thing: ad exitum aliquid perducere
    
  • (ambiguous) to turn out (well); to result (satisfactorily): eventum, exitum (felicem) habere
    
  • (ambiguous) the question has been settled: quaestio ad exitum venit
    

Learned borrowing from Latin exitus.

exitus n (uncountable)

1. death

• éxitus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin exitus (“departure”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈeksitus/ [ˈeksi.t̪us]
• Rhymes: -eksitus

exitus m (plural exitus)

1. (medicine) death, decease

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “exitus”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

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