Noun: exercitus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Fourth
Nominative
| Singular | exercitus |
| Plural | exercitūs |
Genitive
| Singular | exercitūs |
| Plural | exercituum |
Dative
| Singular | exercituī |
| Plural | exercitibus |
Accusative
| Singular | exercitum |
| Plural | exercitūs |
Ablative
| Singular | exercitū |
| Plural | exercitibus |
Vocative
| Singular | exercitus |
| Plural | exercitūs |
Sample Sentences
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Piscatores: ex urbe ad mare huc prodimus pabulatum: ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 211 BCE, Plautus, Rudens 2.1.7–8]
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Eheu, huic illud dolet,
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quia nunc remissus est edendi exercitus. ―
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Nullumne interea nactu's, qui posset tibi ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 200 BCE – 190 BCE, Plautus, Captivi 1.2.43–46 (here used as a springboard for a wordplay on the double meaning of exercitus)]
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Noli, obsecro, lacrumis tuis mi exercitum imperare. ((please add an English translation of this quotation)) [c. 203 BCE, Plautus, Cistellaria 1.1.56]
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Dīmīsitque eōs, et perrēxērunt ad locum īnsidiārum, sēdēruntque inter Bethel et Hāī, ad occidentālem plāgam urbis Hāī: Jōsue autem nocte illā in mediō mānsit populī, surgēnsque dīlūculō recēnsuit sociōs, et ascendit cum seniōribus in fronte exercitūs, vāllātus auxiliō pugnātōrum. (And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the city of Hai. But Josue stayed that night in the midst of the people, And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army environed with the aid of the fighting men.) [4th century AD, St. Jerome, Vulgate, Book of Joshua 8.9–10 (Trans. Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner rev. Link to Josue (Joshua) Chapter 8 in parallel Latin Vulgate & English Douay-Rheims)]
Nouns inflected like exercitus
frūctus,
scītus,
sessus,
saltus,
socrus,
accubitus,
flūctus,
septemvirātus,
vīctus,
flū̆xus,
olfactus,
pugilātus,
perfectus,
bālātus,
pāstus,
īnfectus,
subrīsus,
sēnsus,
īnflūxus,
arcessītus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰ
3. Proto-Indo-European *-s
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éǵʰs
5. Proto-Italic *eks
6. Latin ex
7. Latin ex-
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk-
9. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
10. Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti
11. Proto-Indo-European *h₂orkéyeti
12. Proto-Italic *arkeō
13. Latin arceō
14. Latin exerceō
15. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
16. Proto-Italic *-tus
17. Latin -tus
18. Latin exercitus
19. From exerceō (“to occupy oneself, oversee; work at, practice, exercise”) + -tus (action noun forming suffix).
Verbs referencing "exercitus"
Spanish Nouns
ejército, Italian Nouns
esercito, Catalan Nouns
exèrcit.
Translations