Etymology

overexercise

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Today it means: To exercise to an excessive degree. Full definition →

English exercise ← Middle English exercise ← Old French exercise
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Germanic*uber
  4. Old Englishofer-
  5. Middle Englishover-
  6. Englishover-
  7. Latinexercitium
  8. Old Frenchexercise
  9. Middle Englishexercise
  10. Englishexercise
  11. English todayoverexercise

From over- + exercise.

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