exercitium

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Latin

Etymology

From exerceō (keep busy, work at).

Pronunciation

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).

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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.