equus

== Latin == === Alternative forms === equos (Republican spelling) ecus (pronunciation spelling) === Etymology === Inherited from Proto-Italic *ekwos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos (“horse”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos), Sanskrit अश्व (áśva), Persian اسب (asb), Old Armenian էշ (ēš, “donkey”), Tocharian B yakwe, and Gaulish epos. Respelt with ⟨quu⟩ for the earlier ⟨quo⟩/⟨cu⟩ in post-Augustan times on the analogy of oblique cases. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɛ.kʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɛː.kʷus] === Noun === equus m (genitive equī, feminine equa); second declension horse Vergil, Aeneis II, 48 and 110-113 and 150 (edited and translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Virgil with an English translation I, 1916) saepe illos aspera ponti | interclusit hiems et terruit Auster euntis; | praecipue, cum iam hic trabibus contextus acernis | staret equus, toto sonuerunt aethere nimbi. Often a fierce tempest of the deep cut them off and the gale scared them from going. Above all, when yonder horse now stood framed of maple-beams, storm clouds sounded throughout the sky. quo molem hanc immanis equi statuere? To what end have they set up this huge mass of a horse? steed, charger Vergil, Georgicon II, 541-542 (edited and translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Virgil with an English translation I, 1916) Sed nos immensum spatiis confecimus aequor, | et iam tempus equum fumantia solvere colla. But in our course we have traversed a mighty plain, and now it is time to unyoke the necks of our smoking steeds. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Synonyms ==== ==== Hypernyms ==== iūmentum (when used to pull carts) armentum (when used to pull plows) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Esperanto: ekvo, ekvedo, ekveno → Translingual: Equus === References === “equus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “equus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "equus", 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) “equus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.