escuier

== Middle French == === Etymology === Variant of escuyer. === Noun === escuier m (plural escuiers) squire; shield-bearer == Old French == === Etymology === Inherited from Late Latin scūtārius m, from Latin scūtum n. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /eskyˈjeːɾ/ === Noun === escuier oblique singular, m (oblique plural escuiers, nominative singular escuiers, nominative plural escuier) squire; shield-bearer ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: escuyer m, escuier mFrench: écuyer m → Middle English: esquier, esquire English: esquire, squire === Further reading === “écuyer”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 Frédéric Godefroy (1880–1902), “escuier”, in Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle […], Paris: F[riedrich] Vieweg; Émile Bouillon, →OCLC.