exercitium

Latin

Etymology

From exerceō (“keep busy, work at”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.serˈki.ti.um/, [ɛk.s̠ɛrˈkɪ.t̪i.ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.serˈt͡ʃi.t͡si.um/, [ɛk.sɛrˈt͡ʃiː.t͡si.um]

Noun

exercitium n (genitive exercitiī or exercitī); second declension

1. exercise, practice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• exercitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette