different between cataphract vs knight

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt?f?ækt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæt??f?ækt/, [-??-]
• Hyphenation: ca?ta?phract

Etymology 1

From Latin cataphractes (“suit of armour”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (kataphrákt?s, “suit of armour”), from ????- (kata-, prefix indicating a great degree or intensity) + ??????? (phraktós, “protected; fenced in”) (from ?????? (phráss?, “to fortify, secure; to fence in”)) + -??? (-t?s, suffix forming nouns indicating a state of being).

Noun

cataphract (plural cataphracts)

1. (military, historical) Defensive armour covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations.
2. (ichthyology, by extension, obsolete) An outer covering of some fish resembling armour or plate.

Derived terms

• cataphracted (adjective)
• cataphractic

Translations

Etymology 2

The adjective is derived from Ancient Greek ??????????? (katáphraktos, “covered, enclosed, shut up; completely suited in armour”), from ???????????? (kataphrássein, “to suit in armour”) (see further at etymology 1) + -??? (-tos, “suffix forming adjectives”).

The noun is derived from Latin cataphractus (“wearing armour, mailed”), from Ancient Greek ??????????? (katáphraktos, “covered, enclosed, shut up; completely suited in armour”); see above.

Adjective

cataphract

1. (nautical, historical) Of a galley such as a trireme: with the upper tier of rowers shielded rather than exposed.

   Antonym: aphract

Translations

Noun

cataphract (plural cataphracts)

1. (military, historical) A soldier (especially a horseman) covered with a cataphract (etymology 1, sense 1).

Translations

See also

• cuirassier

References

Further reading

• cataphract on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?t, IPA^(key): /na?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t
• Homophones: night, nite

Etymology 1

From Middle English knight, knyght, kniht, from Old English cniht (“boy, servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Alternative forms

• knyght

Noun

knight (plural knights)

1. (historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.
2. (historical) A minor nobleman with an honourable military rank who had served as a page and squire.
3. (by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.

   King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

4. (modern) A person on whom a knighthood has been conferred by a monarch.
5. (literary) A brave, chivalrous and honorable man devoted to a noble cause or love interest.
6. (chess) A chess piece, often in the shape of a horse's head, that is moved two squares in one direction and one at right angles to that direction in a single move, leaping over any intervening pieces.
7. (card games, dated) A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack.
8. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Ypthima.
9. (modern) A generic name for various mushrooms belonging to the order Agaricales, the gilled mushrooms; scientific name Tricholoma.

Synonyms

• (chess piece): horse (informal)

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• Appendix:Chess pieces

Etymology 2

From Middle English knighten, kni?ten, from the noun. Cognate with Middle High German knehten.

Verb

knight (third-person singular simple present knights, present participle knighting, simple past and past participle knighted)

1. (transitive) To confer knighthood upon.

2. (chess, transitive) To promote (a pawn) to a knight.

Synonyms

• dub

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• paladin
• baronet

Middle English

Alternative forms

• knighte, knyght, knyghte, kni?t, kni?te, kny?t, kny?te

Etymology

From Old English cniht, from Proto-West Germanic *kneht.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /knixt/, [kniçt]
• (dialectal or Late ME) IPA^(key): /kni?t/
• Rhymes: -ixt

Noun

knight (plural knightes or knighten)

1. knight

Descendants

• English: knight
• Scots: knicht
• Yola: nickht

References

• “kn??ght, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.