The story
- Latin · derived fromexactus
- French · borrowed fromexactitude
- English todayexactitude
From French exactitude, from exact, from Latin exactus, perfect passive participle of exigō (“demand, claim as due" or "measure by a standard, weigh, test”), from ex (“out”) + agō (“drive”).
Words from the same roots
Latinexactus all →
exactexacta
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.