exercitatio

Latin

Etymology

From exercitō (“to exercise, train”) +‎ -tiō (noun-forming suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ek.ser.kiˈtaː.ti.oː/, [ɛks̠ɛrkɪˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ek.ser.t͡ʃiˈtat.t͡si.o/, [eɡzert͡ʃiˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

exercitātiō f (genitive exercitātiōnis); third declension

1. exercise, training, practice
2. discipline

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	exercitātiō	exercitātiōnēs
genitive	exercitātiōnis	exercitātiōnum
dative	exercitātiōnī	exercitātiōnibus
accusative	exercitātiōnem	exercitātiōnēs
ablative	exercitātiōne	exercitātiōnibus
vocative	exercitātiō	exercitātiōnēs

Descendants

• Italian: esercitazione
• Ligurian: esercitaçión
• Piedmontese: esercitassion
• Romanian: exercitație

References

• “exercitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exercitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exercitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.