Perfect passive participle ofexerceō(“to occupy oneself, oversee; work at, practice, exercise”), fromex-(“out of”) +‎arceō(“to ward off, protect, guard”), fromProto-Italic*arkeō, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂orké-ye-ti, fromProto-Indo-European*h₂erk-(“to protect, guard”).

• exercitus: (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ekˈser.ki.tus/,[ɛkˈs̠ɛrkɪt̪ʊs̠]
• exercitus: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ekˈser.t͡ʃi.tus/,[eɡˈzɛrt͡ʃit̪us]
• exercitūs: (Classical Latin)IPA^(key): /ekˈser.ki.tuːs/,[ɛkˈs̠ɛrkɪt̪uːs̠]
• exercitūs: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)IPA^(key): /ekˈser.t͡ʃi.tus/,[eɡˈzɛrt͡ʃit̪us]

exercitus (feminineexercita,neuterexercitum);first/second-declension participle

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

First/second-declension adjective.

Fromexerceō(“to occupy oneself, oversee; work at, practice, exercise”) +‎-tus(action noun forming suffix).

exercitus m (genitiveexercitūs);fourth declension

1. anexercised,disciplinedbody ofmen, anarmy
   • 4th century AD,St. Jerome,Vulgate,Book of Joshua 8.9–10, (Trans.Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner rev. Link toJosue (Joshua) Chapter 8 in parallel Latin Vulgate & English Douay-Rheims):

     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 fronteexercitūs, 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 ofthe army environed with the aid of the fighting men.

2. theassembly of the people in theComitiaCenturiata, as being amilitaryorganization
3. (poetic) amultitude,host,swarm,flock
4. atroop, body ofattendants
5. trouble,affliction

Fourth-declension noun.

• “exercitus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “exercitus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "exercitus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• exercitus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page624.
• exercitus inGeorges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918)Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column2549
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], 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 (notnumerosus)
    
  • (ambiguous) soldiers collected in haste; irregulars:milites tumultuarii (opp.exercitus iustus) (Liv. 35. 2)
    
  • (ambiguous) mercenary troops:milites mercennarii orexercitus 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 orproducere in aciem
    
  • (ambiguous) to draw up forces in battle-order:aciem (copias, exercitum) instruere orin 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”, inHarry Thurston Peck, editor (1898),Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “exercitus”, inWilliam Smith et al., editor (1890),A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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