eques

From Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”).

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.

• -esque, squee

From equus (“horse”) + the root of īre (“to go”) (compare pedes, mīles for similar formations).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.kʷes/, [ˈɛ.kᶣɛs]

eques m (genitive equitis); third declension

1. A horseman, rider
2. A knight
3. (Late Latin, chess) knight

Third declension.

• equitulus (diminutive, New Latin, rare)
• equitō

• 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, 1883–1887)
• eques in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, 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