Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

From equitō (to ride) +‎ -tus (noun-forming suffix).

Noun edit

 
Roman Cavalry Reenactment.

equitātus m (genitive equitātūs); fourth declension

  1. cavalry
  2. an instance of riding
  3. (rare) the order of equestrians
Declension edit

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative equitātus equitātūs
Genitive equitātūs equitātuum
Dative equitātuī equitātibus
Accusative equitātum equitātūs
Ablative equitātū equitātibus
Vocative equitātus equitātūs
Synonyms edit
Related terms edit

Etymology 2 edit

Apparently from equiō, equīre (I am on heat) via an unused frequentative *equitō +‎ -tus (noun-forming suffix).[1]

Noun edit

equitātus m (genitive equitātūs); fourth declension

  1. (of mares) a being in heat
    • c. 165 BCE – 103 BCE, Gaius Lucilius, Saturae (fragments) 1275:
      quantum hinnitum atque equitatum
    • 116 BCE – 27 BCE, Marcus Terentius Varro, De Lingua Latina 7.104:
      Lucilii: 'haec inquam rudet ex rostris atque hei<u>litabit.' eiusdem: 'quantum hinnitum atque equitatum.'
      • 1938 translation by Roland G. Kent
        Lucilius's
        This, I say, he'll bray from the stand and lament
        to the public.
        The same poet's
        How much neighing and prancing like horses.
Declension edit

Fourth-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative equitātus equitātūs
Genitive equitātūs equitātuum
Dative equitātuī equitātibus
Accusative equitātum equitātūs
Ablative equitātū equitātibus
Vocative equitātus equitātūs

References edit

  1. ^ J. Facciolati; Æg. Forcellini; J. Furlanetti (1864) Lexicon Totius Latinitatis, page 289

Further reading edit

  • equitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • equitatus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • equitatus 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)
  • equitatus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to have the advantage in cavalry: equitatu superiorem esse
    • the cavalry covers the retreat: equitatus tutum receptum dat
  • equitātus” in volume 5, part 3, column 728, line 55 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present