exercitium

Latin

Etymology

From exerceō (“keep busy, work at”)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ek.serˈki.ti.um/, [ɛk.sɛrˈkɪ.t̪i.ʊ̃ˑ]

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
• English: exercise
• Esperanto: ekzercado
• French: exercice
• Galician: exercicio
• Italian: esercizio
• Ligurian: esercìçio
• Neapolitan: esercizio
• Papiamentu: ehersisto
• Portuguese: exercício
• 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