"eques" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: equites [plural]
Etymology: From Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|eques||horseman, knight; equestrian}} Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”) Head templates: {{en-noun|equites}} eques (plural equites)
  1. (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. Tags: Ancient-Rome, historical
    Sense id: en-eques-en-noun-FD4nf1V9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Ancient Rome, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 75 1 1 1 20 1 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 68 1 1 1 28 1

Noun [Latin]

IPA: [ˈɛ.kʷɛs] [Classical-Latin], [ˈɛː.kʷes] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From equus (“horse”) + -es (“-faring”). Compare pedes, mīles for similar formations. Etymology templates: {{root|la|ine-pro|*h₁eḱ-}}, {{suffix|la|equus|-es||id2=t-stem|t1=horse|t2=-faring}} equus (“horse”) + -es (“-faring”) Head templates: {{la-noun|eques/equit<3>|g=m}} eques m (genitive equitis); third declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|eques/equit<3>}} Forms: equitis [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], eques [nominative, singular], equitēs [nominative, plural], equitis [genitive, singular], equitum [genitive, plural], equitī [dative, singular], equitibus [dative, plural], equitem [accusative, singular], equitēs [accusative, plural], equite [ablative, singular], equitibus [ablative, plural], eques [singular, vocative], equitēs [plural, vocative]
  1. horseman, cavalryman, rider Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-eques-la-noun-3Bd19gA5 Categories (other): Occupations Disambiguation of Occupations: 51 4 10 24 11
  2. knight Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-eques-la-noun-zh2AHRUt
  3. equite, eques, equestrian (class) Tags: declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-eques-la-noun-2sY2ZCyc
  4. (Late Latin, chess) knight Tags: Late-Latin, declension-3, masculine
    Sense id: en-eques-la-noun-zh2AHRUt1 Categories (other): Late Latin, Chess, Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the third declension, Latin terms suffixed with -es (t-stem), Chess, Male people Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 17 2 4 73 4 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the third declension: 18 18 15 31 17 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -es (t-stem): 7 6 6 76 6 Disambiguation of Chess: 13 0 0 87 0 Disambiguation of Male people: 22 9 9 52 9 Topics: board-games, chess, games
  5. (in the plural) Equestrian order Tags: declension-3, in-plural, masculine
    Sense id: en-eques-la-noun-obFhU9p3
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: equitulus [New-Latin, diminutive, rare], equitō
Categories (other): Feudalism, Military Disambiguation of Feudalism: 0 0 0 0 0 Disambiguation of Military: 0 0 0 0 0

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-23 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-02 using wiktextract (6fdc867 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.