exerceo
Latin
Etymology
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From ex- (“out of, from”) + arceō (“enclose; ward off”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈser.ke.oː/, [ɛkˈs̠ɛrkeoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈser.t͡ʃe.o/, [eɡˈzɛrt͡ʃeo]
Verb
exerceō (present infinitive exercēre, perfect active exercuī, supine exercitum); second conjugation
- I keep busy, keep at work, drive on; occupy, employ, exercise (something in a form of action)
- I harass, worry
- I oversee, superintend, operate
- I work (at)
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References
- “exerceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exerceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exerceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be severely tried by misfortune: multis iniquitatibus exerceri
- to be at enmity with a man: inimicitias gerere, habere, exercere cum aliquo
- to follow an artistic profession, practise an art: artem exercere
- to exercise one's cruelty on some one: crudelitatem exercere in aliquo
- to be a strict disciplinarian in one's household: severum imperium in suis exercere, tenere (De Sen. 11. 37)
- to rear stock: rem pecuariam facere, exercere (cf. Varr R. R. 2. 1)
- to collect the taxes: vectigalia exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
- to administer justice; to judge (used of criminal cases before the praetor): iudicium exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
- to be severely tried by misfortune: multis iniquitatibus exerceri