exercitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of exerceō.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ekˈser.ki.tus/, [ɛkˈs̠ɛrkɪt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ekˈser.t͡ʃi.tus/, [eɡˈzɛrt͡ʃit̪us]
Participle
exercitus (feminine exercita, neuter exercitum); first/second-declension participle
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | exercitus | exercita | exercitum | exercitī | exercitae | exercita | |
Genitive | exercitī | exercitae | exercitī | exercitōrum | exercitārum | exercitōrum | |
Dative | exercitō | exercitō | exercitīs | ||||
Accusative | exercitum | exercitam | exercitum | exercitōs | exercitās | exercita | |
Ablative | exercitō | exercitā | exercitō | exercitīs | |||
Vocative | exercite | exercita | exercitum | exercitī | exercitae | exercita |
Noun
exercitus m (genitive exercitūs); fourth declension
- an exercised, disciplined body of men, an army
- the assembly of the people in the Centuria Comitiata, as being a military organization
- (poetic) a multitude, host, swarm, flock
- a troop, body of attendants
- trouble, affliction
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | exercitus | exercitūs |
Genitive | exercitūs | exercituum |
Dative | exercituī | exercitibus |
Accusative | exercitum | exercitūs |
Ablative | exercitū | exercitibus |
Vocative | exercitus | exercitūs |
Descendants
References
- “exercitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exercitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exercitus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- exercitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to provide corn-supplies for the troops: frumentum providere exercitui
- to place some one at the head of an army, give him the command: praeficere aliquem exercitui
- to be at the head of an army: praeesse exercitui
- (ambiguous) to raise an army: exercitum conficere (Imp. Pomp. 21. 61)
- (ambiguous) to levy troops: milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere
- (ambiguous) to equip an army, troops: parare exercitum, copias
- (ambiguous) to support an army: alere exercitum (Off. 1. 8. 25)
- (ambiguous) to review an army: recensere, lustrare, recognoscere exercitum (Liv. 42. 31)
- (ambiguous) to disband an army: dimittere exercitum
- (ambiguous) a numerous army: ingens, maximus exercitus (not numerosus)
- (ambiguous) soldiers collected in haste; irregulars: milites tumultuarii (opp. exercitus iustus) (Liv. 35. 2)
- (ambiguous) mercenary troops: milites mercennarii or exercitus conducticius
- (ambiguous) to advance with the army: procedere cum exercitu
- (ambiguous) to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
- (ambiguous) to advance on..: exercitum admovere, adducere ad...
- (ambiguous) to lead the army to the fight: exercitum educere or producere in aciem
- (ambiguous) to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere
- (ambiguous) to annihilate, cut up the enemy, an army: hostes, exercitum delere, concīdere
- (ambiguous) the victorious army: exercitus victor
- (ambiguous) to embark an army: exercitum in naves imponere (Liv. 22. 19)
- to provide corn-supplies for the troops: frumentum providere exercitui
- “exercitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “exercitus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin participles
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- Latin nouns
- Latin fourth declension nouns
- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
- Latin masculine nouns
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