eques
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”).
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
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From equus (“horse”) + the root of īre (“to go”) (compare pedes, mīles for similar formations).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈe.kʷes/, [ˈɛkʷɛs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈe.kwes/, [ˈɛːkwes]
Noun
eques m (genitive equitis); third declension
- A horseman, rider
- A knight
- (Late Latin, chess) knight
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | eques | equitēs |
Genitive | equitis | equitum |
Dative | equitī | equitibus |
Accusative | equitem | equitēs |
Ablative | equite | equitibus |
Vocative | eques | equitēs |
Derived terms
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[1], 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
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