Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

exercitation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ex-erci-ta-tion
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.

Countable; Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"To Crates and Dicæarchus it seemed that there was none at all;[…] To Plato, that it was a substance moving of it selfe: To Thales, a Nature without rest; To Asclepiades, an exercitation of the senses[…]."
"This was at first to have taken place alternately at each other's houses, but we soon discovered that my friend's resolution was inadequate to severing him from his couch at the early hour fixed for this exercitation."
"Mens sana in corpore sano, which being translated means, mens—or perhaps I should say, men—should incorporate bodily exercise with mental exercitation."
"Come up, sir, and show me your exercitation."

Etymology

From Latin exercitatio, from exercitare, intensive, from exercere (“to exercise”).

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: exercitatio

Usage

Inflected Forms

exercitations (plural)

Questions

What does exercitation mean?: The exercise or exertion of some power, responsibility, faculty etc.
Where does exercitation come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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