Latin

Verb

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

1. I keep busy, keep at work, drive on; occupy, employ, exercise (something in a form of action)
2. I harass, worry
3. I oversee, superintend, operate
4. I work (at)

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Descendants

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

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
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exerceo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (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...)