Translation
exception
Word origin
From Latin exceptio ('a taking out'), from excipere, built from ex ('out') and capere ('to take'). An exception is what you take out of the rule; English exception and except share the root.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- excipere
- English cognates
- exception, except
Examples
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Every rule has an exception.
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Everyone came, without exception.
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That is the exception, not the rule.
A pleasing irony: Esperanto grammar famously has sixteen rules and, by design, almost no . The word survives mostly for talking about other languages.
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