equine

See also: équine

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin equīnus (“of or pertaining to horses”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/, /ˈiːˌkwaɪn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈɛkˌwaɪn/, /ˈiˌkwaɪn/

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Adjective

equine (comparative more equine, superlative most equine)

1. Of or relating to a horse or horses.
   • 1859, Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species:

     He who believes that each equine species was independently created, will, I presume, assert that each species has been created with a tendency to vary, both under nature and under domestication, in this particular manner, so as often to become striped like other species of the genus; and that each has been created with a strong tendency, when crossed with species inhabiting distant quarters of the world, to produce hybrids resembling in their stripes, not their own parents, but other species of the genus.

   • 2023 January 11, Richard Foster, “British Rail's weirdest railways...: Nantlle Railway”, in RAIL, number 974, page 51:

     Four years after the publication of the Modernisation Report, and two years after the very first 'Pilot Scheme' diesels were introduced, BR finally said goodbye to a form of traction even older than the steam locomotive. This was the horse... and the line that used equine power was older than the Liverpool & Manchester [Railway].

   • 2024 April 27, Michael Hogan, “Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh?”, in The Observer‎, →ISSN:

     The equine escapees caused chaos bolting through the capital, colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians.

2. Of or relating to any member or members of the genus Equus.

Synonyms

• hippo-
• horsey, horsy
• horsely (rare)
• horsen (rare)

Derived terms

• eastern equine encephalitis
• equinal
• equinely
• equineness
• equine rhabdomyelosis
• equine therapy
• equine variola
• equinism
• equinity
• equinophobe
• equinophobia
• equinophobic
• nonequine
• unequine
• Venezuelan equine encephalitis
• Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis

Translations

of or relating to a horse or horses

Arabic: فَرَسِيّ (farasiyy), خَيْلِيّ (ḵayliyy) Belarusian: ко́нскі (kónski) Bulgarian: ко́нски (kónski) Catalan: equí Chinese: Mandarin: 馬的 / 马的 (zh) (mǎ de) Czech: koňský (cs) Esperanto: ĉevala, (taxonomic subfamily) ekvena, (taxonomic family) ekveda Finnish: hevos- French: chevalin (fr), équin (fr), hippique (fr) German: Pferde- (de) Ido: kavalala (io) Italian: equino (it) m Japanese: ウマの (ja) (uma no) Korean: 말의 (ko) (mar-ui) Latin: equīnus Macedonian: коњски (konjski) Persian: اسبی (fa) (asbi), اسپی (aspi) Polish: koński (pl) Portuguese: equino (pt) Romanian: cabalin (ro) Russian: лошади́ный (ru) (lošadínyj), ко́нский (ru) (kónskij), ко́нный (ru) (kónnyj) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ко̏њски Roman: kȍnjski (sh) Slovak: konský (sk) Slovene: konjski Spanish: equino (es) Ukrainian: кі́нський (kínsʹkyj), коня́чий (konjáčyj)

Noun

equine (plural equines)

1. Any horse or horse-like animal, especially one of the genus Equus.

Translations

Any horse-like animal

Esperanto: (taxonomic subfamily) ekveno, (taxonomic family) ekvedo (eo) Finnish: hevoseläin Portuguese: equino (pt) m Romanian: cabalină (ro) f

See also

• equid

Italian

Adjective

equine f

1. feminine plural of equino

Latin

Adjective

equīne

1. vocative masculine singular of equīnus