different between patrician vs eques

English

Alternative forms

• patritian (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French patricien, from Latin patricius, derived from patr?s c?nscr?pt? (“Roman senators”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?t?????n/
• Rhymes: -???n

Noun

patrician (plural patricians)

1. (antiquity) A member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
2. A person of high birth; a nobleman.
3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.

Translations

Adjective

patrician (comparative more patrician, superlative most patrician)

1. Of or pertaining to the Roman patres ("fathers") or senators, or patricians.
2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
   • his horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood

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Related terms

• matrician

Further reading

• Patrician on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

From Latin eques (“horseman, knight; equestrian”).

Noun

eques (plural equites)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) A member of the equestrian order (Latin: ordo equester), the lower of the two aristocratic classes of Ancient Rome, ranking below the patricians.

Anagrams

• -esque, squee

Latin

Etymology

From equus (“horse”) + the root of ?re (“to go”) (compare pedes, m?les for similar formations).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?e.k?es/, [??k??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?e.kwes/, [???kw?s]

Noun

eques m (genitive equitis); third declension

1. A horseman, cavalryman, rider
2. A knight
3. an equite, an eques, an equestrian (class)
4. (Late Latin, chess) knight

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Derived terms

• equitulus (diminutive, New Latin, rare)
• equit?

See also

References

• eques in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• eques in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• eques in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• eques in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.