exercitatio

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs

Proto-Italic *eks

Latin ex

Latin ex-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-der.

Proto-Italic *arkeō

Latin arceō

Latin exerceō

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Italic *-āō

Latin -ō

Latin -tō

Latin exercitō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin exercitātiō

From exercitō (“to exercise, train”) + -tiō (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.sɛr.kɪˈtaː.ti.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡ.zer.t͡ʃiˈtat.t͡si.o]

Noun

exercitātiō f (genitive exercitātiōnis); third declension

1. exercise, training, practice
2. discipline

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exercitātiō	exercitātiōnēs
genitive	exercitātiōnis	exercitātiōnum
dative	exercitātiōnī	exercitātiōnibus
accusative	exercitātiōnem	exercitātiōnēs
ablative	exercitātiōne	exercitātiōnibus
vocative	exercitātiō	exercitātiōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: esercitazione
• Ligurian: esercitaçión
• Piedmontese: esercitassion
• Romanian: exercitație

References

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