destrer

Catalan

Etymology

From destre +‎ -er, because a page would lead it using his right hand when the knight was no longer mounted.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [dəsˈtɾe]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [desˈtɾeɾ]

Noun

destrer m (plural destrers)

1. (historical) warhorse

Further reading

• “destrer”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “destrer” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• destrere, dextrer

Etymology

Old French destrier, from Latin dextrārius, from dexter (“right-hand”) (where the squire led his master's horse).

Noun

destrer (plural destrers)

1. warhorse, destrier
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Ryme of Syr Thopas”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     By him baiteth his dextrer.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

• “destrer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Old French

Noun

destrer oblique singular, m (oblique plural destrers, nominative singular destrers, nominative plural destrer)

1. a warhorse
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     Li quens Rollant est muntet el destrer.

     The count Roland mounted the warhorse.

Descendants

• → English: destrier