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English
Noun
equinus (uncountable)
- (medicine) Synonym of talipes equinus
2005, Thomas J. Chang, The Foot and Ankle, page 239:There are several types of equinus described, which include soft tissue versus osseous equinus and also spastic versus nonspastic.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From equus + -īnus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
equīnus (feminine equīna, neuter equīnum); first/second-declension adjective
- (relational) horse; equine
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “equinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “equinus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- equinus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- equinus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.