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Latin
Etymology
Diminutive form of eques (“knight”), formed equit- (stem of eques) + -ulus (diminutive suffix); literally, “little knight”.
Pronunciation
Noun
equitulus m (genitive equitulī); second declension
- (New Latin, rare) a young knight
1637, Johannes Clüver, “Epitomes…Appendix: Res ab anno hujus ſeculi xxx. uſque in hunc xxxiii. geſtas continens”, in Hiſtoriarum Totius Mundi Epitome, page 17:In hunc totis caſtris inſurgendum videns Tillius Comes, partem equitulus præmittit, ſubſequitur ipſe cum firmiſſimo exercitu.- Seeing this uprising in the whole camp, the young knight, Count Tilly, sends ahead a contingent, and himself follows close after with the most steadfast of the army.
Declension
Second-declension noun.