exodos

Etymology

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

exodos means A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 89 out of 100.

Why this word is great

EXODOS — [Noun] The formal concluding scene, marked by the departure of the chorus, in an ancient Greek drama. Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἔξοδος (éxodos, "a going out, departure"), from ἐξ (ex, "out") + ὁδός (hodós, "way, road, journey"). Unlike "exodus" (which evokes the seismic tumult of a mass migration) or "catastrophe" (which names the hero's climactic, ruinous reversal), the exodos is the structured, ceremonial aftermath. It is the measured tread of sandaled feet leaving the orchestra, the final choral ode fading into the Attic dusk, and the sudden, hollow silence left upon the emptied stage—a ritualized return from the heightened world of the play to the common road, where the walking home now begins.

noun

A final scene or departure in a play, especially a tragedy.“1994, Carlo Ferdinando Russo (author and translator), Aristophanes: An Author for the Stage, [1962, Aristofane autore di teatro], page 173, 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).”