exuviae

From Latin exuō (“cast off, undress”).

exuviae

1. plural of exuvia

exuviae pl (plural only)

1. The coverings of an animal that have been shed or cast off, particularly the molted exoskeletons of arthropods.

   Synonyms: exuvium, exuvia

2. (historical, military) Among the Ancient Romans, weaponry and equipment stripped from the person of a foe; booty.

• exuvial

From exuō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsu.u̯i.ae̯/, [ɛkˈs̠uː̯iäe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ekˈsu.vi.e/, [eɡˈzuːvie]

exuviae f pl (genitive exuviārum); first declension

1. spoils, booty
2. skin of a snake etc. sloughed off
3. remains (that which has been taken off)

First-declension noun, plural only.

• exuvia
• exuvium

exuviae

1. inflection of exuvia:
   1. nominative/vocative plural
   2. genitive/dative singular

• “exuviae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exuviae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exuviae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.