Noun: equus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Genitive
| Singular | equī |
| Plural | equōrum |
Accusative
| Singular | equum |
| Plural | equōs |
Sample Sentences
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equo ne credite, Teucri! Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes. (Do not trust the horse, Trojans! Whatever it is, I fear the Danaans even if they are bearing gifts.) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis II.48]
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saepe illos aspera ponti | interclusit hiems et terruit Auster euntis; | praecipue, cum iam hic trabibus contextus acernis | staret equus, toto sonuerunt aethere nimbi.
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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. (To what end have they set up this huge mass of a horse?) [Vergil, Aeneis II, 48 and 110-113 and 150 (edited and translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Virgil with an English translation I, 1916)]
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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.) [Vergil, Georgicon II, 541-542 (edited and translated by H. Rushton Fairclough, Virgil with an English translation I, 1916)]
Nouns inflected like equus
priāpismus,
scāpus,
servus,
cuneolus,
sargus,
saccus,
scarus,
scinus,
scopus,
illēgitimus,
sorbus,
sophus,
somnus,
Hispānus,
soccus,
sirpus,
siclus,
icterus,
cunīculus,
xystus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus
3. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos
4. Proto-Italic *ekwos
5. Latin equus
6. 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.
7. Respelt with ⟨quu⟩ for the earlier ⟨quo⟩/⟨cu⟩ in post-Augustan times on the analogy of oblique cases. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
ἵππος'.
Verbs referencing "equus"
Ancient Greek Nouns
ἵππος, English Nouns
equipage, Old Norse Nouns
jór, Spanish Nouns
burdégano, English Nouns
equiphile.
Translations