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English
Etymology
From Latin equuleus.
Noun
equuleus (plural equulei)
- (historical) An ancient torture device, possibly resembling a wooden horse, or possibly a rack.
Latin
Etymology
From equus (“horse”) + -uleus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
equuleus m (genitive equuleī); second declension
- colt, foal
- equuleus (torture device)
Declension
Descendants
References
- “equuleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “equuleus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- equuleus 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)
- equuleus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “equuleus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “equuleus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin