exercitium

Latin

Etymology

From exerceō (“keep busy, work at”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛk.sɛrˈkɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eɡ.zerˈt͡ʃit.t͡si.um]

Noun

exercitium n (genitive exercitiī or exercitī); second declension

1. exercise, practice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	exercitium	exercitia
genitive	exercitiī exercitī1	exercitiōrum
dative	exercitiō	exercitiīs
accusative	exercitium	exercitia
ablative	exercitiō	exercitiīs
vocative	exercitium	exercitia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

• (exercise): exercitāmentum, exercitātiō, exercitiō, exercitus

Related terms

• exerceō
• exercibilis
• exercitāmentum
• exercitātē
• exercitātiō
• exercitātor
• exercitātōrius
• exercitātrix
• exercitātus
• exercitē
• exercitiō
• exercitō
• exercitor
• exercitōrius
• exercituālis
• exercitus

Descendants

• Catalan: exercici
• Esperanto: ekzercado
• → French: exercice
• Galician: exercicio
• Italian: esercizio
• Ligurian: esercìçio
• Neapolitan: esercizio
• → Old French: exercise
  • → Middle English: exercise
    • English: exercise
• Papiamentu: ehersisto
• Piedmontese: esercissi
• Portuguese: exercício
• Romanian: exercițiu
• → Spanish: ejercicio

References

• “exercitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exercitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "exercitium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “exercitium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.