equuleus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin equuleus. === Noun === equuleus (plural equulei) (historical) An ancient torture device, possibly resembling a wooden horse, or possibly a rack. == Latin == === Alternative forms === eculeus === Etymology === From equus (“horse”) +‎ -uleus (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɛˈkʊ.ɫe.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [eˈkʷuː.le.us] === Noun === equuleus m (genitive equuleī); second declension colt, foal equuleus (torture device) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== equus ==== Descendants ==== Portuguese: ecúleo Italian: eculeo === References === “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, 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