exercise
English
/ˈɛk.sə.saɪz/, /ˈɛk.sɚ.saɪz/
noun
Definitions
- (countable) Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.
- (countable) Activity intended to improve physical, or sometimes mental, strength and fitness.
- A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.
- The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.
- (obsolete) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English exercise derived from Old French exercise derived from Latin exercitium root from Proto-Indo-European *h₂erk- (guard, protect, hold, shut in).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂erk-
Gloss
guard, protect, hold, shut in
Concept
Semantic Field
Warfare and hunting
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
💂 💂♀️ 💂♂️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- coerce English
- coercion English
- ekker English
- exercisability English
- exercisable English
- exerciser English
- exercisest English
- exerciseth English
- exercisible English
- nonexercisable English
- nonexercise English
- nonexerciser English
- overexercise English
- postexercise English
- underexercise English
- unexercisable English
- Orcus Latin
- arca Latin
- arcanus Latin
- arcera Latin
- arcānus Latin
- arx Latin
- coerceo Latin
- exerceo Latin
- exercitium Latin
- exercitāre Latin
- exercitātiōnem Latin
- porceo Latin
- Exerzitium German
- exercice French
- ejercicio Spanish, Castilian
- ἀρκέω Ancient Greek
- *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European
- exercise Middle English
- exercise Old French
- exercici Catalan, Valencian
- ارگ Persian
- ehersisyo Cebuano
- eksersays Cebuano
- *arkeō Proto-Italic
- *pe-arkō, *pearkō Proto-Italic
- esercìçio Ligurian
- esercizio Neapolitan
- ehersisyo Hiligaynon
- eksersisyu Yogad