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

• Audio (Colombia):

  (file)

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

ejército m (plural ejércitos)

1. army

   Synonym: milicia

• → Paraguayan Guarani: ehérsito
• → Tagalog: ehersito

• ejercitar (verb)

• Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “ejercer”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎^[1] (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 548

• “ejército”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025