equitatus
Latin
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /e.kʷiˈtaː.tus/, [ɛkʷɪˈt̪äːt̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /e.kwiˈta.tus/, [ekwiˈt̪äːt̪us]
Etymology 1
editFrom equitō (“to ride”) + -tus (noun-forming suffix).
Noun
editequitātus m (genitive equitātūs); fourth declension
- cavalry
- an instance of riding
- (rare) the order of equestrians
Declension
editFourth-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- (riding): equitātiō
Related terms
editEtymology 2
editApparently from equiō, equīre (“I am on heat”) via an unused frequentative *equitō + -tus (noun-forming suffix).[1]
Noun
editequitātus m (genitive equitātūs); fourth declension
- (of mares) a being in heat
- 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.
- Lucilius's
- 1938 translation by Roland G. Kent
- Lucilii: 'haec inquam rudet ex rostris atque hei<u>litabit.' eiusdem: 'quantum hinnitum atque equitatum.'
Declension
editFourth-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | equitātus | equitātūs |
Genitive | equitātūs | equitātuum |
Dative | equitātuī | equitātibus |
Accusative | equitātum | equitātūs |
Ablative | equitātū | equitātibus |
Vocative | equitātus | equitātūs |
References
editFurther 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
- to have the advantage in cavalry: equitatu superiorem esse
- “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
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- Latin masculine nouns in the fourth declension
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