equuleus

Latin equuleus

equuleus (plural equulei)

1. (historical) An ancient torture device, possibly resembling a wooden horse, or possibly a rack.

• eculeus

From equus (“horse”) +‎ -uleus (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /eˈkʷu.le.us/, [ɛˈkʊɫ̪eʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈkwu.le.us/, [eˈkwuːleus]

equuleus m (genitive equuleī); second declension

1. colt, foal
2. equuleus (torture device)

• Second-declension noun.

• equus

• Portuguese: ecúleo
• Italian: eculeo

• “equuleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “equuleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• equuleus 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)
• equuleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “equuleus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “equuleus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin