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English
Etymology
Noun
eques (plural equites)
- (historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From equus (“horse”) + -es (“-faring”). Compare pedes, mīles for similar formations.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛ.kʷɛs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.kʷes]
Noun
eques m (genitive equitis); third declension
- horseman, cavalryman, rider
- knight
- equite, eques, equestrian (class)
- (Late Latin, chess) knight
- (in the plural) Equestrian order
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Derived terms
- equitulus (diminutive, New Latin, rare)
- equitō
See also
| Chess pieces in Latin · latrunculī, mīlitēs scaccōrum (layout · text) | |||||
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| rēx | rēgīna | turris | sagittifer | eques | pedes |
References
- “eques”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “eques”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "eques", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “eques”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum
- to place the cavalry on the wings: equites ad latera disponere (B. G. 6. 8)
- to repel the attack of the enemy's cavalry: summovere or reicere hostium equites
- a dictator appoints a magister equitum: dictator dicit (legit) magistrum equitum
- Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
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