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"exercise" in seven languages

Meaningexercise

Spanish

ejercicio

/exeɾˈθiθjo/

masc.learned

French

exercice

/ɛgzɛʁsis/

masc.learned

Italian

esercizio

/ezerˈtʃittsjo/

masc.learned

Portuguese

exercício

/ezehˈsisju/

masc.learned

Romanian

exercițiu

/eɡzerˈtʃitsju/

neut.learned

Catalan

exercici

/əɡzərˈsisi/

masc.learned

English

exercise

/ˈɛksɚsaɪz/

from Latin/French · Old French exercice

English → ItalianexerciseesercizioCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share

The Latin ancestor

EXERCITIUM‘training, practice (EXERCĒRE 'to keep busy')’

All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.

The story

Spanish wrote learned x as j long ago (ejercicio, ejército), so it now sounds [x]; Italian turned it into s (esercizio). The army (ejército, esercito) is the 'trained' body.

English relatives: exercise, exert

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In a sentence

  • esHaced el ejercicio tres.
  • frFaites l'exercice trois.
  • itFate l'esercizio tre.
  • ptFaçam o exercício três.
  • roFaceți exercițiul trei.
  • caFeu l'exercici tres.
  • enDo exercise three.

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