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Latin
Etymology
From exerceō (“keep busy, work at”).
Pronunciation
Noun
exercitium n (genitive exercitiī or exercitī); second declension
- exercise, practice
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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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.