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Latin
Etymology
From ex- (“out of, from”) + arceō (“enclose; ward off”).
Pronunciation
Verb
exerceō (present infinitive exercēre, perfect active exercuī, supine exercitum); second conjugation
- to keep busy, keep at work, drive on; occupy, practise, employ, exercise (something in a form of action)
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 1.430–431:
- Quālis apēs aestāte novā per flōrea rūra
exercet sub sōle labor .- Just like honeybees , in early summer, through flowery meadows, keeps busy under the sun, toil .
- Synonyms: operor, labōrō, vertō, versō, iactō
- to harass, worry
- to oversee, superintend, operate
- to work (at)
- 4th-century CE, Jerome of Stridon (St. Jerome), Vulgate, Proverbs 24:27:
- praeparā foris opus tuum et dīligenter exercē agrum tuum ut posteā aedificēs domum tuam
- Prepare thy work without, and diligently till thy ground: that afterward thou mayst build thy house.
- (trans. Douay-Rheims Bible)
- (reflexive or passive voice) to train, to exercise (e.g., for a race or sport)
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References
- “exerceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “exerceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- exerceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be severely tried by misfortune: multis iniquitatibus exerceri
- to be at enmity with a man: inimicitias gerere, habere, exercere cum aliquo
- to follow an artistic profession, practise an art: artem exercere
- to exercise one's cruelty on some one: crudelitatem exercere in aliquo
- to be a strict disciplinarian in one's household: severum imperium in suis exercere, tenere (De Sen. 11. 37)
- to rear stock: rem pecuariam facere, exercere (cf. Varr R. R. 2. 1)
- to collect the taxes: vectigalia exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)
- to administer justice; to judge (used of criminal cases before the praetor): iudicium exercere (vid. sect. V. 7, note The first...)