equester

• equestris

From eques (“horseman, rider”) +‎ -estris.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈkʷes.ter/, [ɛˈkʷɛs̠t̪ɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈkwes.ter/, [eˈkwɛst̪er]

equester (feminine equestris, neuter equestre); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. of or pertaining to an equestrian
2. of or pertaining to cavalry
3. knightly, belonging to the mounted knights

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

• domus equester

• → Catalan: eqüestre
• → French: équestre
• → Italian: equestre
• → Sicilian: aquestri
• → Spanish: ecuestre

equester m (genitive equestris); third declension

1. horseman, rider

   Synonym: eques

2. knight

Third-declension noun.

• “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 and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray