equester

• equestris

From eques (“horseman, rider”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈkʷes.ter/, [ɛˈkᶣɛs.tɛr]

equester (feminine equestris, neuter equestre); third declension

1. of or pertaining to an equestrian
2. of or pertaining to cavalry
3. belonging to the mounted knights
4. (substantive) horseman, rider

Third declension, nominative masculine singular in -er, nominative neuter singular in -e.

• (horseman, rider): eques

• domus equester

• French: équestre
• Spanish: ecuestre

equester m (genitive equestris); third declension

1. knight

Third declension.

• equester in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• equester in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• equester in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the equestrian order; the knights: ordo equester (splendidissimus)
    
  • a knight by birth: equestri loco natus or ortus
    
  • to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelio equestri contendere
    
  • to give battle with a cavalry-division: proelium equestre facere
    
• equester in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• equester in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray