Latin

Participle

exercitus m ‎(feminine exercita, neuter exercitum); first/second declension

1. occupied, exercised, practised
2. vexed, harassed
3. vexatious, severe
4. disciplined

Inflection

First/second declension.

Noun

exercitus m ‎(genitive exercitūs); fourth declension

1. an exercised, disciplined body of men, an army
2. the assembly of the people in the Centuria Comitiata, as being a military organization
3. (poetic) a multitude, host, swarm, flock
4. a troop, body of attendants
5. trouble, affliction

Declension

Fourth declension.

Descendants

References

• exercitus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• exercitus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• EXERCITUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “exercitus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to provide corn-supplies for the troops: frumentum providere exercitui
    
  • to place some one at the head of an army, give him the command: praeficere aliquem exercitui
    
  • to be at the head of an army: praeesse exercitui
    
  • (ambiguous) to raise an army: exercitum conficere (Imp. Pomp. 21. 61)
    
  • (ambiguous) to levy troops: milites (exercitum) scribere, conscribere
    
  • (ambiguous) to equip an army, troops: parare exercitum, copias
    
  • (ambiguous) to support an army: alere exercitum (Off. 1. 8. 25)
    
  • (ambiguous) to review an army: recensere, lustrare, recognoscere exercitum (Liv. 42. 31)
    
  • (ambiguous) to disband an army: dimittere exercitum
    
  • (ambiguous) a numerous army: ingens, maximus exercitus (not numerosus)
    
  • (ambiguous) soldiers collected in haste; irregulars: milites tumultuarii (opp. exercitus iustus) (Liv. 35. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) mercenary troops: milites mercennarii or exercitus conducticius
    
  • (ambiguous) to advance with the army: procedere cum exercitu
    
  • (ambiguous) to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
    
  • (ambiguous) to advance on..: exercitum admovere, adducere ad...
    
  • (ambiguous) to lead the army to the fight: exercitum educere or producere in aciem
    
  • (ambiguous) to draw up forces in battle-order: aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere or in acie constituere
    
  • (ambiguous) to annihilate, cut up the enemy, an army: hostes, exercitum delere, concīdere
    
  • (ambiguous) the victorious army: exercitus victor
    
  • (ambiguous) to embark an army: exercitum in naves imponere (Liv. 22. 19)
    
• exercitus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• exercitus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin