exercitium

Latin

Etymology

From exerceō (“keep busy, work at”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.serˈki.ti.um/, [ɛks̠ɛrˈkɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.serˈt͡ʃit.t͡si.um/, [eɡzerˈt͡ʃit̪ː͡s̪ium]

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 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.