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exerceo

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Latin

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Etymology

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From ex- (out of, from) +‎ arceō (enclose; ward off).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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exerceō (present infinitive exercēre, perfect active exercuī, supine exercitum); second conjugation

  1. 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 [a colony of] honeybees [which], in early summer, through flowery meadows, keeps busy under the sun, [such was the] toil [of the Carthaginian builders] [...].
    Synonyms: operor, labōrō, vertō, versō, iactō
  2. to harass, worry
  3. to oversee, superintend, operate
  4. 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)
  5. (reflexive or passive voice) to train, to exercise (e.g., for a race or sport)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • English: exercise
  • French: exercer
  • Italian: esercire
  • Portuguese: exercer
  • Spanish: ejercer

References

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  • 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[1], 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...)