different between ques vs eques

English

Noun

ques

1. plural of que

Latin

Pronoun

qu?s m pl or f pl (neuter plural qua, indefinite pronoun)

1. (Old Latin) any
   • senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus:

     SEI·QVES
     ESENT·QVEI·SIBEI·DEICERENT·NECESVS·ESE·BACANAL·HABERE·EEIS·VTEI·AD·PR·VRBANVM
     ROMAM·VENIRENT·DEQVE·EEIS·REBVS·VBEI·EORVM·VTR A [= VERBA]·AVDITA·ESENT·VTEI·SENATVS
     NOSTER·DECERNERET·DVM·NE·MINVS·SENATORBVS [= SENATORIBVS]·C·ADESENT· A [= QVOM EA] RES·COSOLORETVR

     if there are any who claim that it is necessary for them to have such a place, they are to come to Rome to the praetor urbanus, and the senate is to decide on those matters, when their claims have been heard, provided that not less than 100 senators are present when the affair is discussed.

     SEI·QVES·ESENT·QVEI·ARVORSVM·EAD·FECISENT·QVAM·SVPRAD
     SCRIPTVM·EST·EEIS·REM·CAPVTALEM·FACIENDAM·CENSVERE

     if there are any who have acted contrary to what was written above, they have decided that a proceeding for a capital offense should be instituted against them;

     ATQVE
     VTEI·EA·BACANALIA·SEI·QVA·SVNT·EXSTRAD·QVAM·SEI·QVID·IBEI·SACRI·EST
     ITA·VTEI·SVPRAD·SCRIPTVM·EST·IN·DIEBVS·X·QVIBVS·VOBEIS·TABELAI·DATAI
     ERVNT·FACIATIS·VTEI·DISMOTA·SIENT

     see to it that the revelries of Bacchus, if there be any, except in case there be concerned in the matter something sacred, as was written above, be disbanded within ten days after this letter shall be delivered to you.

See also

• quei
• quis, qu?

References

• quis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  qui in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1303 & 1304

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish queso.

Noun

ques

1. cheese

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 268

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.