exerceo
Latin
verb
Definitions
- I keep busy, keep at work, drive on; occupy, practise, employ, exercise (something in a form of action)
- I harass, worry
- I oversee, superintend, operate
- I work (at)
- (reflexive) I train, I exercise e.g., for a race or sport
Etymology
Affix from Latin arceō (ward off, keep off, enclose, protect, guard, I ward off) 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
- Lupercus Latin
- Orcus Latin
- abarceo Latin
- arca Latin
- arcanus Latin
- arcera Latin
- arceō Latin
- arcānus Latin
- arx Latin
- coerceo Latin
- exercitium Latin
- exercitus Latin
- exercitāre Latin
- exercitātiōnem Latin
- porceo Latin
- ἀρκέω Ancient Greek
- *h₂erk- Proto-Indo-European
- ارگ Persian
- *arkeō Proto-Italic
- *pe-arkō, *pearkō Proto-Italic