equitatus

== Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛ.kʷɪˈtaː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.kʷiˈtaː.tus] === Etymology 1 === From equitō (“to ride”) +‎ -tus (noun-forming suffix). ==== Noun ==== equitātus m (genitive equitātūs); fourth declension cavalry an instance of riding (rare) the order of equestrians ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Synonyms ===== (riding): equitātiō ===== Related terms ===== === Etymology 2 === Apparently from equiō, equīre (“I am on heat”) via an unused frequentative *equitō +‎ -tus (noun-forming suffix). ==== Noun ==== equitātus m (genitive equitātūs); fourth declension (of mares) a being in heat ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. === References === === Further reading === “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, 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. “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