inexercitatus

Pronunciation

• Classical: [ɪ.nɛk.sɛr.kɪˈtaː.tʊs]^[1]
• Ecclesiastical: [i.neɡ.zer.t͡ʃiˈtaː.tus]^[1]

Forms

inexercitātus (feminine inexercitāta, neuter inexercitātum); first/second-declension adjective^[1]

Etymology

It is from Latin in-² (“not”) + exercitātus (“trained, practised”),^[1] the participle of exercitō with the negative prefix.^[2][3] The TLL likewise derives it from ⟨in⟩ and exercitātus.^[4]

Earliest recorded meaning

It is first found in Cicero,^[3] who calls a man neither dull nor untrained in De oratore.^[2][5]

Semantic evolution

In Cicero it describes people without practice, such as speakers and raw soldiers, often in a litotes (“not untrained”).^[5][4] Celsus applies it to the body, of someone who takes no exercise: such a person, he says, bears hunger more easily than a trained one.^[2] Frontinus again uses it of soldiers.^[5]

Timeline

• 81–43 BC – Cicero uses it of people without practice, among them speakers and soldiers.^[2][5][3]
• 14–37 AD – Celsus uses it of a body without exercise.^[2][3]

Meanings

Adjective

1. Not trained, unpractised, inexperienced.^[2][5]
2. Not exercised, inactive, inert.^[2]

References

1. ^ a b c d Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d e f g Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
3. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2010), Lateinisches Abkunfts- und Wirkungswörterbuch für Altertum und Mittelalter, online ed., koeblergerhard.de
4. ^ a b Thesaurus linguae Latinae (1900–), Leipzig: Teubner; Berlin: De Gruyter; open-access ed., Munich: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
5. ^ a b c d e Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press