equitium

Latin

Alternative forms

• equicium

Etymology

From equus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɛˈkʷɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [eˈkʷit.t͡si.um]

Noun

equitium n (genitive equitiī or equitī); second declension

1. A herd or stable of horses kept for breeding; a stud farm

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	equitium	equitia
genitive	equitiī equitī1	equitiōrum
dative	equitiō	equitiīs
accusative	equitium	equitia
ablative	equitiō	equitiīs
vocative	equitium	equitia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “equitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "equitium", 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)
• “equitium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.