Wiktionary http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Main_Page MediaWiki 1.16alpha-wmf case-sensitive Media Special Talk User User talk Wiktionary Wiktionary talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Appendix Appendix talk Concordance Concordance talk Index Index talk Rhymes Rhymes talk Transwiki Transwiki talk Wikisaurus Wikisaurus talk WT WT talk Citations Citations talk 62655 6616005 2009-05-19T00:13:53Z Bjankuloski06en 28238 t+mk:[[момок]] ([[WT:EDIT|Assisted]]) ==English== {{wikipedia}} ===Pronunciation=== * {{audio|en-us-squire.ogg|Audio (US)}} * {{rhymes|aɪə(r)}} ===Etymology 1=== From {{etyl|enm|en}} {{term|esquire||lang=enm}}, from {{etyl|fro|en}}, from {{etyl|la}} {{term|scutarius||lang=la|shield-bearer}} ====Noun==== {{en-noun}} # A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a [[knight]]. # A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See [[esquire]]. # A male [[attendant]] on a great personage. # A devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a [[beau]]. # A title of office and courtesy. See under [[esquire]]. =====Translations===== {{trans-top|square; measure; rule.}} * French: {{t+|fr|équerre|f}} {{trans-mid}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|armor-bearer who attended a knight}} * Finnish: {{t-|fi|aseenkantaja}} * French: {{t+|fr|écuyer|m}} * German: {{t-|de|Schildknappe|m}}, {{t+|de|Knappe|m}} {{trans-mid}} * Italian: {{t-|it|scudiero|m}} * [[Macedonian]]: {{t|mk|штитоносец|m|tr=štitonósec|sc=Cyrl}} * Spanish: {{t-|es|escudero}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|title of dignity}} * French: {{t+|fr|seigneur|m}}, {{t+|fr|châtelain|m}} * German: {{t+|de|Kavalier|m}} {{trans-mid}} * Italian: {{t+|it|gentiluomo|m}}, {{t-|it|nobiluomo|m}} {{t+|it|di}} {{t+|it|campagna|f}}, {{t-|it|castellano|m}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|male attendant}} * French: {{t+|fr|valet|m}}, {{t-|fr|majordome|m}} * German: {{t+|de|Galan|m}} {{trans-mid}} * Italian: {{t-|it|valletto|m}}, {{t+|it|maggiordomo|m}} * [[Macedonian]]: {{t|mk|момок|m|tr=mómok|sc=Cyrl}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|male follower of a lady}} * Finnish: {{t+|fi|seuralainen}}, {{t-|fi|kavaljeeri}} * French: {{t+|fr|cavalier|m}}, {{t-|fr|escorte|f}} {{trans-mid}} * Italian: {{t-|it|cicisbeo|m}} {{trans-bottom}} {{trans-top|title of office and courtesy}} * Italian: {{t+|it|gentiluomo|m}} {{trans-mid}} {{trans-bottom}} ====Verb==== {{en-verb|squir|ing}} # To [[attend]] as a squire # To attend as a [[beau]], or [[gallant]], for aid and protection ===Etymology 2=== From {{etyl|frm|en}} {{term|esquierre||lang=frm|rule, carpenter's square}}, from {{etyl|fro|en}} {{term|esquarre||lang=fro|square}} See [[square]]. ====Noun==== {{en-noun}} # {{obsolete}} A ruler; a carpenter's square; a measure. #* '''1598''', [[w:Edmund Spenser|Edmund Spenser]], [[w:The Faerie Queene|The Faerie Queene]] #*: But temperaunce, said he, with golden '''squire''', / Betwixt them both can measure out a meane. #* '''1598''', [[w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:Love's Labour's Lost|Love's Labour's Lost]]'', V, 2, 474. #*: do not you know my lady's foot by the '''squire'''. #* '''1620''', [[w:Robert Burton|Robert Burton]], [[w:The Anatomy of Melancholy|The Anatomy of Melancholy]] #*: "as for a workman not to know his axe, saw, '''squire''', or any other toole," #* '''1628''', [[w:William Shakespeare|William Shakespeare]], ''[[w:The Winter's Tale|The Winter's Tale]]'', IV, 4, 348. #*: twelve foot and a half by the '''squire'''. [[et:squire]] [[fa:squire]] [[fr:squire]] [[io:squire]] [[hu:squire]] [[te:squire]] [[vi:squire]]