ejército

• exército (obsolete)

Inherited from Old Spanish exército, borrowed from Latin exercitus. According to Coromines and Pascual, first attested in the 15th century in Juan de Mena and the marquis of Santillana, replacing the inherited Old Spanish hueste. The borrowing was read with the “native” Old Spanish value of x, /ʃ/, instead of /ks/, cf. ejemplo.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /eˈxeɾθito/ [eˈxeɾ.θi.t̪o]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /eˈxeɾsito/ [eˈxeɾ.si.t̪o]

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• (Spain) Rhymes: -eɾθito
• (Latin America) Rhymes: -eɾsito
• Syllabification: e‧jér‧ci‧to

ejército m (plural ejércitos)

1. army

   Synonym: milicia

• ejercitar (verb)

• Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1984) “ejercer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volumes II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 548

• “ejército”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014